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To prepare for the development of free groups in the next chapter, we examine the concept of a term in a given set of variable-symbols and operation-symbols, the evaluation of terms in groups and other algebraic structures, and their use to express identities.
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Bergman, G.M. (2015). Making Some Things Precise. In: An Invitation to General Algebra and Universal Constructions. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11478-1_2
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