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Lawvere, William; Schanuel, Stephen (January 8, 2009). Conceptual Mathematics_A First Introduction to Categories (2nd ed.). local page: Cambridge University Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0521719162.
On Page 180
In 1872 Felix Klein proposed that the way to study an object is to investigate all its automorphisms, which he called symmetries.
Other references
Sir William Hamilton also had a one-pager memo that relates quaternion with the subject of symmetry[1].
Related Pages
- ↑ Sir William Rowan Hamilton (1856). "Memorandum respecting a new System of Roots of Unity" (PDF). Philosophical Magazine. local page. 12: 446.