CAYLEY'S GROUP THEOREM

CAYLEY, ARTHUR.

A Theorem on Groups.

Leipzig, B. G. Teubner, 1879. 8vo. Bound in recent full black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Mathematische Annalen", Volume 13., 1878. Entire volume offered. Library label pasted on to pasted down front free end-paper. Small library stamp to lower part of title title page and verso of title page. Very fine and clean. Pp. 561-65. [Entire volume: IV,
576 pp.].

First printing of Cayley's paper on groups; a subject to which he devoted a considerably amount of time. "Galois's use of substitution groups to decide the algebraic solvability of equations, and the continuation of his work by Abel and Cauchy, had provided a strong incentive to many other mathematicians to develop group theory further." (DSB)

The present volume contain several other papers by influential contemporary mathematicians.

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