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Groups and Physics

A. John Coleman

When Weyl and Wigner first began to introduce group theoretic methods into quantum theory, many physicists regarded it as the "gruppenpest". Coleman's historical survey of the role of group theory in physics describes its transformation from a pest to a fundamental tool.