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Free Variable Axioms for Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

R. L. Goodstein
R. L. Goodstein*
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University of Leicester
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The growing importance of the elements of group theory in sixth form teaching has been recognised by a number of recent publications, but a very simple presentation of the theory of groups by means of free variable axioms which was introduced by Lorenzen more than twenty-five years ago, and which is particularly well suited for elementary teaching, does not appear to be as well known as it deserves to be.

Lorenzen defines a group in terms of division x/y, instead of multiplication, a device which obviates the need to postulate the existence of a neutral element and an inverse.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 52 , Issue 382 , December 1968 , pp. 342 - 347
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1968

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