Timeline for Direct construction of the integers
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| Nov 8, 2011 at 10:45 | history | edited | Leo Alonso | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2011 at 10:12 | history | edited | Leo Alonso | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2011 at 15:57 | comment | added | Leo Alonso | @Richard Rast. Thanks for your comment. I didn't notice the first comment in the question either. However I wonder if there is a description of the free group that does not go through a quotient, something using the universal property. | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 13:45 | comment | added | Richard Rast | But this still has quotients (eg $xy^{-1}y=x$) which is what the OP was trying to avoid. | |
| Nov 7, 2011 at 11:38 | history | answered | Leo Alonso | CC BY-SA 3.0 |