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Imbedding of countable groups in 2-generated simple groups

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We show that every countable group is imbeddable in a 2-generated simple group.

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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 231–235, August, 1974.

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Goryushkin, A.P. Imbedding of countable groups in 2-generated simple groups. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 16, 725–727 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01105577

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