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Évariste Galois 

in the 1830s. After contributions from other


fields such as number theory and geometry, the group
notion was generalized and firmly established around
1870. Today, group theory is a very active mathematical
discipline that studies groups in their own right. 
Symmetry groups are widely applied 
in molecular chemistry and various physical disciplines. (
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