The Mathematical Intelligencer

, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp 54–57 | Cite as

The Ubiquity of Free Groups

  • A. M. W. Glass
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Free Group Automorphism Group Free Product Galois Theory Free Subgroup 
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© Springer Verlag 1992

Authors and Affiliations

  • A. M. W. Glass
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  1. 1.Department of Mathematics and StatisticsBowling Green State UniversityBowling GreenUSA

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