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Mathematician Gareth Jones on abelian and non-abelian groups, the symmetry of geometric objects and what are the principles a group must satisfy.

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'There are the rules which characterize a group: you have a set, you have a way of combining two elements in the set to produce a third, you have an identity element which does nothing when you combine it with something else, and every element has an inverse which cancels it out.'

Gareth Jones, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of Southampton

Undecidable Problems: serious-science.org/undecidable-problems-9772
Prime Numbers: serious-science.org/prime-numbers-6114

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