The Butcher group was introduced in Butcher’s seminal work on Runge-Kutta methods. The elements of the group are (generalised) numerical schemes which contain the Runge-Kutta schemes and the group product encodes composition of numerical schemes.
Later Brouder observed that the Butcher group can be viewed as the character group of the (Butcher-)Connes-Kreimer-Hopf algebra used in the combinatorial approach to renormalisation.
The group is used in numerical analysis to deal with order conditions of numerical methods. Further, it has been discovered that the Butcher group is an infinite-dimensional Lie group.
The English wikipedia article is quite detailed
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