Download or read book The Burnside Problem and Identities in Groups written by S. I. Adi︠a︡n and published by Springer. This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a special course that the author delivered to the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Moscow University in the academic years 1971/72 and 1972/73. It presents a new and improved version of the method of investigating groups with an identical relation of the form [lowercase italic]x[lowercase italic superscript]n = 1 evolved by P. S. Novikov and the author for solving Burnside's problem on periodic groups, first published in a joint paper. In the interval since the Russian edition was published, the method described has found new applications.