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We outline basic group theory terms and concepts while providing greater depth for the fundamentals of group presentations, free groups, and trees. Groundwork is set for topics for further exploration, such as dead-end elements, revisited in the exploration of groups in the later chapters.
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Bonanome, M.C., Dean, M.H., Putnam Dean, J. (2018). Preliminaries. In: A Sampling of Remarkable Groups. Compact Textbooks in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01978-5_1
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