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A hundred years of finite group theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

Peter M. Neumann
Peter M. Neumann*
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The Queen’s College, Oxford 0X1 4AW
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Extract

In the preface to the first edition (1897) of his book [1] on the theory of finite groups, William Burnside wrote: ‘The subject is one which has hitherto attracted but little attention in this country; it will afford me much satisfaction if, by means of this book, I shall succeed in arousing interest among English mathematicians in a branch of pure mathematics which becomes the more fascinating the more it is studied.’ He returned to this point in his presidential address delivered to the London Mathematical Society on 12 November 1908.

Type
Twentieth Century Mathematics
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 80 , Issue 487 , March 1996 , pp. 106 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1996

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