 Abstract awakenings in algebra: Early group theory in the works of Lagrange, Cauchy, and Cayley by Janet Heine Barnett

By Janet Heine Barnett.

Online text: www.cs.nmsu.edu/historical-projects/Projects/Cayley.pdf

Cited passages: Abstract awakenings in algebra: Early group theory in the works of Lagrange, Cauchy, and Cayley by Janet Heine Barnett, Section 3.1, printed page 50: reproduced opening paragraph of Arthur Cayley's On the theory of groups, as depending on the symbolic equation theta^n = 1; reference 5, printed page 91: original publication in 1854.