Group Theory – All Subgroups Normal Implies Abelian Group

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This is , I think an easy problem just that I am not getting the catch of it. How to show whether or not the statement is true?

All subgroups of a group are normal$\implies$ the group is an abelian group?

I have been able to show the other way round.

Best Answer

This is actually not true. A group for which all subgroups are normal is called a Dedekind group, and non-abelian ones are called "Hamiltonian". The smallest example is the quaternion group $Q_8$. See this MO discussion for more info.

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