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group theory

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group theory
Psychology A theory that explains human behavior by studying the regular interactions of social groups that have a degree of association and interdependence Types of social groups Formal, informal, informal allied, institutionalized allied


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A second, circa 1820, was the discovery of group theory by the young French mathematician Galois.
Roberts, a journalist, details how this mathematical prodigy's work on the principles of symmetry and group theory defended "visual mathematics" during the 1940s, when a group known as the Bourbakis asserted geometry's irrelevance.
 
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