nLab Wilhelm Magnus

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

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Selected writings

On understanding the braid group as a mapping class group:

• Wilhelm Magnus, Über Automorphismen von Fundamentalgruppen berandeter Flächen, Mathematische Annalen 109 (1934) 617–646 [doi:10.1007/BF01449158]

On combinatorial group theory (presentations of groups):

• Wilhelm Magnus, A. Karras, D. Solitar, Combinatorial group theory: Presentation of groups in terms of generators and relations, Courier Corporation (1966, 2004) [ISBN:0-486-43830-9, GoogleBooks]

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

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