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Group Enumeration and Where It Leads Us

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European Congress of Mathematics

Part of the book series: Progress in Mathematics ((PM,volume 169))

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Let g(n) be the number of (isomorphism classes of) groups of order n. One of the most intriguing problems of asymptotic group theory is to obtain sharp estimates for g(n) (see section 2 for the history of the problem).

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Pyber, L. (1998). Group Enumeration and Where It Leads Us. In: Balog, A., Katona, G.O.H., Recski, A., Sza’sz, D. (eds) European Congress of Mathematics. Progress in Mathematics, vol 169. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8898-1_11

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