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History of profinite groups, when was it first mentioned? What was the original definition?
Profinite groups were first called "Groups of Galois type", see J.P. Serre's book "Cohomologie Galoisienne" of $1964$. The term "profinite" comes from Serre (if I am not mistaken).
Of course, some pro …
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