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- In mathematics: The theory of equations
…(as he called it) of permutations of the roots of an equation. This move took him away from the equations themselves and turned him instead toward the markedly more tractable study of permutations. To any given equation there corresponds a definite group, with a definite collection of subgroups. To explain…
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