On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Rob Beezer <goo...@beezer.cotse.net> wrote:
>
> In introductory group theory, I like to be sure to expose the students
> to every group of order 15 or less.  As permutation groups, most of
> these are easily available in Sage via cyclic permutation groups,
> perhaps along with the function that builds direct products, dihedral
> groups, etc.  There are two gaps to fill though.  Trac #7151 adds the
> "quaternion group" (nonabelian, order 8).  The remaining group is the
> semidirect product of Z_3 by Z_4 (one presentation is <s, t; s^6 = 1,
> s^3 = t^2, sts = t>).
>
> The nonabelian group of order 4 is known in Sage as the
> "KleinFourGroup".
>
> My question: anybody know a succinct name for the above group of order
> 12?  I've seen it listed a few places as "T" - does that have a
> history?

Possibly this (incomplete) page is useful:
http://www.opensourcemath.org/gap/small_groups.html
There is a book Group tables, by Thomas+Wood, which I used to compile it,
but I ran out of gas and left several entries (eg, groups of order 14)
completely blank.

>
> Rob
> >
>

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