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The Hunting Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2025

Arthur White  and
Robin Wilson
Arthur White
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008-5152, U.S.A.
Robin Wilson
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
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Abstract

The early composers of change ringing music for English church bells were not mathematicians, yet they developed intricate algebraic ideas more than a century before mathematicians independently discovered them. We introduce the mathematical concepts of permutation group and symmetry group by means of elementary change ringing compositions of the 17th and 18th centuries.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 79 , Issue 484 , March 1995 , pp. 5 - 16
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 1995

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