The Genesis of the Abstract Group Concept: A Contribution to the History of the Origin of Abstract Group Theory (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Wussing, Hans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486458687 ISBN 13: 9780486458687

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2007

Synopsis

"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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Review

"It is a pleasure to turn to Wussing's book, a sound presentation of history .... The topic of the book is such that less is said about group theory itself than about the subjects in which it grew. These discussions are far from perfunctory; the 13 pages on Galois, for instance, are an excellent study of the spirit of his work. Wussing always gives enough detail to let us understand what each author was doing, and the book could almost serve as a sampler of 19th-century algebra. The bibliography is extremely good, and the prose is sometimes pleasantly epigrammatic."- William C. Waterhouse, "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society" (review of the German edition)

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486458687
• ISBN 13: 9780486458687
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Grant Hardy