Talk:Word problem for groups
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This article needs work. I am reasonably mathematically literate but it conveyed nothing to me apart fom the fact that someone discovered that some problem was unsolvable. Unfortunately the unleavened use of unfamiliar technical terms in the description of the problem prevented me from understanding what the unsolvable problem actually was. I'm sure that I'm not alone. -- Derek Ross 05:37, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
Well, I've added a lot more. It just is an abstract question. Charles Matthews 12:08, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
Thanks, Charles. I won't pretend that the article is crystal clear yet but at least it's now giving me some idea of the nature of the problem whereas before it told me essentially nothing. -- Derek Ross 14:58, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
Word problems for other theories.
I think we need a more general page for "word problem" because word problems exist in frameworks other than groups.
For example, there is a "word problem for free lattices".--Malcohol 11:48, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)