Simplicity of the alternating group A5

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Simplicity of the alternating group A5 by Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
The conjugacy classes of have sizes
A normal subgroup is a union of these classes containing the identity. No proper nontrivial such union has size dividing , so Lagrange's theorem proves that is simple.

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