The history of symmetry and the asymmetry of history

DOI10.1080/17498430802304024zbMath1163.01013OpenAlexW1996120575WikidataQ58603194 ScholiaQ58603194MaRDI QIDQ3612732

Peter M. Neumann

Publication date: 10 March 2009

Published in: BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/17498430802304024

zbMATH Keywords

symmetrygroupsLagrangeCauchy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Historiography (01A85) History of group theory (20-03)

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Cites Work

• The concept of primitivity in group theory and the second memoir of Galois
• On the date of Cauchy's contributions to the founding of the theory of groups

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