Timeline for alternative construction of the quotient group
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| Feb 7, 2010 at 17:48 | comment | added | gowers | I don't claim it's a good way of doing things, but one could (in desperation) argue that here one is defining quotients in just one situation (what you need to define a group in terms of generators and relations) and getting all quotients out of it. But I wouldn't want to go to the wall on this one ... | |
| Feb 7, 2010 at 16:41 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | "it might end up being an unnecessarily complicated way of presenting essentially the same proof." unfortunately, yes. besides you also use quotients (by identifying things) in this construction. | |
| Feb 7, 2010 at 16:38 | history | answered | gowers | CC BY-SA 2.5 |