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In this book, we have presented group theory as an abstraction based on certain natural, familiar (and not so familiar) mathematical systems: systems of numbers, vectors, matrices, permutations and symmetries. What these systems share is what we formulated into the group axioms — associativity, identity, inverses.
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© 1993 Mark Cartwright
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Cartwright, M. (1993). The Classification Programme. In: Groups. Dimensions of Mathematics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12123-6_6
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