Timeline for Why do Groups and Abelian Groups feel so different?
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| Jun 12, 2016 at 4:55 | answer | added | P Vanchinathan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 11, 2016 at 19:18 | comment | added | R. van Dobben de Bruyn | Historically, groups and abelian groups came up in very different contexts. On the one hand, Lagrange, Ruffini, and eventually Galois used permutation groups to study solubility of polynomial equations by radicals. On the other hand, abelian groups seem to have been introduced in (or at least motivated by) Abel's work on uniformisation of complex tori. | |
| Jun 11, 2016 at 18:49 | answer | added | L.Z. Wong | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 18, 2009 at 21:27 | comment | added | Evgeny Shinder | I reminds me of a thing I often think about: why abelian varieties and affine algebraic groups feel so different. | |
| Dec 18, 2009 at 18:53 | answer | added | Reid Barton | timeline score: 23 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 22:43 | history | edited | Ilya Nikokoshev |
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| Oct 26, 2009 at 22:40 | answer | added | Oscar Randal-Williams | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 19:02 | answer | added | Qiaochu Yuan | timeline score: 10 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 16:35 | answer | added | Sonia Balagopalan | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 10:06 | answer | added | Harrison Brown | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 9:08 | answer | added | S. Carnahan♦ | timeline score: 37 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 5:00 | answer | added | Beren Sanders | timeline score: 32 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 4:32 | answer | added | Andrew Critch | timeline score: 67 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 4:30 | answer | added | John D. Cook | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 4:22 | comment | added | Greg Muller | Oh, I agree entirely. That case is potentially more interesting, because of how fruitful it can be to apply one perspective to the other (see: non-commutative geometry). However, this seemed like the simpler question. | |
| Oct 26, 2009 at 3:44 | history | asked | Greg Muller | CC BY-SA 2.5 |