## Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

### Finite simple groups of low 2-rank and the families $G_2 \left( q \right),\,D_4^2 \left( q \right),\,q$ odd

#### Article information

Source
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., Volume 77, Number 6 (1971), 829-862.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 4 July 2007

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183533159

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR0306301

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0256.20014

#### Citation

Gorenstein, Daniel; Harada, Koichiro. Finite simple groups of low 2-rank and the families $G_2 \left( q \right),\,D_4^2 \left( q \right),\,q$ odd. Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 77 (1971), no. 6, 829--862. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bams/1183533159

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