The History of Combinatorial Group Theory: A Case Study in the History of Ideas

by Bruce Chandler and Wilhelm Magnus

One of the pervasive phenomena in the history of science is the development of independent disciplines from the solution or attempted solutions of problems in other areas of science. In the Twentieth Century, the creation of specialties witqin the sciences has accelerated to the point where a large number of scientists in any major branch of science cannot understand the work of a colleague in another subdiscipline of his own science. Despite this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461394899
• ISBN13: 9781461394891
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"