Recall that, given a set X, the set SX of all bijections from X to itself (or, more briefly, permutations of X) is group under function composition. In particular, for each n ∈ N, the symmetric group Sn is the group of permutations of the set {1, . . . , n}, with the group operation equal to function composition. Thus Sn is a group with n! elements, and it is not abelian if n ≥ 3. If X is a fin...