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We introduce group presentations, present Von Dyck’s lemma and Tietze’s theorem on their transformations. We bring in an important result by B.H. Neumann about finitely presentable groups.
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Bencsáth, K.A., Bonanome, M.C., Dean, M.H., Zyman, M. (2013). Tools: Presentations and Their Calculus. In: Lectures on Finitely Generated Solvable Groups. SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5450-2_2
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