The mathematical life of Cauchy's group theorem (Q1877690)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2092859
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The mathematical life of Cauchy's group theorem (English)
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19 August 2004
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The first nontrivial result in permutation groups was the following theorem (stated but not proved by \textit{E. Galois}, published 1846 by \textit{J. Liouville}) of \textit{Cauchy} (1844): Every group whose order is divisible by a prime number \(p\) has a subgroup of order \(p\). The paper tells the story of that theorem. It starts with a detailed analysis of the (uncomplete) proof by Cauchy and proceeds through its reworkings by \textit{H. Dedekind} (1855--1858), \textit{G. Frobenius} (1887), \textit{L. Sylow} (1872), \textit{C. Jordan} (1870) and \textit{G. A. Miller} (1898) up to the most recent by \textit{J. H. MacKay} (1959).
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Cauchy's theorem
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Permutation groups
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Sylow subgroups
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History of finite
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group theory
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