The mathematical life of Cauchy's group theorem

DOI10.1016/S0315-0860(03)00003-XzbMath1065.01009WikidataQ56092194 ScholiaQ56092194MaRDI QIDQ1877690

Yanyan Li

Publication date: 19 August 2004

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Sylow subgroupsgroup theoryCauchy's theoremPermutation groupsHistory of finite

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of group theory (20-03)

Related Items (1)

Galois and the simple group of order 60

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