`Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is': a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics

DOI10.1007/s00407-017-0193-8zbMath1379.01014OpenAlexW2738434166WikidataQ41537957 ScholiaQ41537957MaRDI QIDQ1675125

Christopher D. Hollings

Publication date: 26 October 2017

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-017-0193-8

zbMATH Keywords

American mathematicsgroup axiomaticspostulational analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Axiomatics and elementary properties of groups (20A05) History of group theory (20-03)

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