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What groups were: A study of the development of the axiomatics of group theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
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This paper is devoted to a historical study of axioms for group theory. It begins with the emergence of groups in the work of Galois and Cauchy, treats two lines of development discernible in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and concludes with a note about some twentieth century ideas. One of those nineteenth century lines involved Cayley, Dyck and Burnside; the other involved Kronecker, Weber (very strongly), Hölder and Frobenius.
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- Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , October 1999 , pp. 285 - 301
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- Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1999
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