Dixon's Theorem (Group Theory)/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Dixon's Theorem
Dixon's Theorem started out as a conjecture made by Eugen Otto Erwin Netto, and published by him in his $1882$ work Substitutionentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Algebra.
As a consequence, it was referred to as Netto's Conjecture.
It was finally proved by John Douglas Dixon in $1967$.
Since then it has been called Dixon's Theorem.
Sources
- 1983: François Le Lionnais and Jean Brette: Les Nombres Remarquables ... (previous) ... (next): $0,75$