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10/05/2009 - 03:10 by wilton

Added a reference to an as-yet non-existent page on Bass--Serre Theory.

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10/05/2009 - 02:19 by wilton

Clarified how the examples fit together, I hope.

03/05/2009 - 17:46 by tao

add the affine transformation example

03/05/2009 - 17:44 by tao

changed a^2 b = ba^3 to ab = ba^2 for consistency (though perhaps we could remark how the different methods extend in different ways); also wikilinked Britton's lemma

03/05/2009 - 05:40 by wilton

Put the example into some context.

30/04/2009 - 21:51 by wilton

Another stub; my group theory is rusty, though, and the example may not be the best one

30/04/2009 - 19:31 by tao

Another stub; my group theory is rusty, though, and the example may not be the best one