Gray, Jeremy
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Abstract
In many different fields of mathematics and physics Poincaré found many uses for the idea of a group, but not for group theory. He used the idea in his work on automorphic functions, in number theory, in his epistemology, Lie theory (on the so-called Campbell–Baker–Hausdorff and Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorems), in physics (where he introduced the Lorentz group), in his study of the domains of complex functions of several variables, and in his pioneering study of 3-manifolds. However, as a general rule, he seldom appealed to deep results in group theory, and developed no more structural analysis of any group than was necessary to solve a problem. It was usually enough for him that there is a group, or that there are different groups.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2012 Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschaap |
| ISSN: | 0028-9825 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Mathematics, Computing and Technology > Mathematics and Statistics |
| Item ID: | 35318 |
| Depositing User: | Jeremy Gray |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2012 16:40 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2012 04:53 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/35318 |
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