Etymology

Frucht's theorem

Today it means: The statement that every finite group is the group of symmetries of a finite undirected graph. More strongly, for any finite group G there exist infinitely many non-isomorphic simple connected graphs such that the automorphism group of each of them is isomorphic to G. Full definition →

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The story

Proved by Robert Frucht in 1939.

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