Definition:Quotient Group/Historical Note

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Historical Note on Quotient Group

The idea of a quotient group appeared in the work of Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan in the $1860$s.

However, the modern formulation using cosets did not appear till the work of Otto Ludwig Hölder in $1889$, fairly late on in the history of group theory.


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