nLab Wilhelm Magnus

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Selected writings

Wilhelm Magnus was a German mathematician who worked in combinatorial group theory.

Selected writings

On understanding the braid group as a mapping class group:

Early discussion of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula:

  • Wilhelm Magnus, A connection between the Baker-Hausdorff formula and a problem of Burnside, Ann. of Math. 52 (1950) 111-126

Discovering so called Magnus expansion, as an application of Lie theory to differential equations:

  • Wilhelm Magnus, On the exponential solution of differential equations for a linear operator, Commun. Pure Appl. Math. 7:4 (1954) 649-673 [doi]

On combinatorial group theory (presentations of groups):

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