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The idea of “group” came about in the early nineteenth century. A product of the work of Évariste Galois (1812–1832) and Augustin-Louis Cauchy, this was one of the first cornerstones of what we now think of as abstract algebra.
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Krantz, S.G. (2011). Beyond Computers: The Sociology of Mathematical Proof. In: The Proof is in the Pudding. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-48744-1_10
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