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Groups and fields

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Sets of elements or objects of which any two can be combined according to a specified rule and in a particular order to obtain a third element of the set occur frequently in all branches of mathematics.

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W. Gellert S. Gottwald M. Hellwich H. Kästner H. Küstner

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© 1975 VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig

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Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (1975). Groups and fields. In: Gellert, W., Gottwald, S., Hellwich, M., Kästner, H., Küstner, H. (eds) The VNR Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6982-0_17

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