Timeline for Meaning of 'alternating' group ?
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| Sep 1, 2011 at 7:58 | comment | added | Ralph | Thanks for the answer. It's also interesting to see that the name of the symmetric group arises from the symmetric functions (formerly I had thought the name comes from the group's relevance in studying symmetries of polyhedra). | |
| Sep 1, 2011 at 7:40 | vote | accept | Ralph | ||
| Sep 1, 2011 at 2:49 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |