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| May 28, 2022 at 16:09 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Oct 28, 2010 at 2:49 | comment | added | user6976 | Ol'shanskii did not rediscover van Kampen diagrams independently of Lyndon. The book of Lyndon and Schupp appeared first and was widely known. However, there were errors in L-S including the proof of the van Kampen lemma (about the diagrams), so many leading group theorists rejected the method in the 60-80s. Ol'shanskii did make everything completely rigorous in his book and earlier papers. | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 14:02 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | I would say these were "ignored" rather than "rejected". | |
| Feb 3, 2010 at 13:57 | history | answered | Johannes Hahn | CC BY-SA 2.5 |