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Research Report MRR00-007

A still unsettled question

M.F. Newman

Abstract: Burnside's paper ``On an unsettled question in the theory of discontinuous groups" of 1902 has proved to be outstandingly influential in the development of a theory of groups described by presentations because of the questions about groups that were asked in it. These notes try to give a guide to some of the paper's influence and to some current interesting and challenging questions arising from the questions in the paper.

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