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The concept of a group was introduced into mathematics by Cayley in the 1860s, generalising the older notion of “substitutions”. The theory of substitutions studied the symmetries of algebraic equations generated by permutations of their roots. The theory was already highly developed; in particular Galois had developed a method to determine whether an algebraic equation can be solved by radicals. Although the work was done before 1832, it was not until 1843 that it gained a wide audience when it was popularised by Liouville.
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(2005). Lie Groups. In: Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27274-7_2
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