Download or read book The Local Structure of Finite Groups of Characteristic 2 Type written by Daniel Gorenstein and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1983 with total page 743 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the generic finite simple group of characteristic 2 type whose proper subgroups are of known type. The authors' principal result (the Trichotomy Theorem) asserts that such a group has one of three precisely determined internal structures.