How abelian can a non-abelian group be?

Katarzyna Słomczyńska

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia (2017)

  • Volume: 9, page 99-110
  • ISSN: 2080-9751

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In this paper we survey, also in historical perspective, the results connected with the notion of the commutativity degree of a finite group, i.e., the probability that two randomly selected elements of the group commute.

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Katarzyna Słomczyńska. "Jak bardzo przemienna może być grupa nieprzemienna?." Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis | Studia ad Didacticam Mathematicae Pertinentia 9 (2017): 99-110. <http://eudml.org/doc/296282>.

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