The Genesis of the Abstract Group Concept

A Contribution to the History of the Origin of Abstract Group Theory

1984 • 338 pages

"It is a pleasure to turn to Wussing's book, a sound presentation of history," declared the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. The author, Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine and Science at Leipzig University, traces the axiomatic formulation of the abstract notion of group. 1984 edition.

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