Paper 2, Section II, G
Part II, 2013
Recall that a regular icosahedron has 20 faces, 30 edges and 12 vertices. Let be the group of rotational symmetries of a regular icosahedron.
Compute the conjugacy classes of . Hence, or otherwise, construct the character table of . Using the character table explain why must be a simple group.
[You may use any general theorems provided that you state them clearly.]