William Burnside [1852-1927] was a scholar of international renown, a colourful figure, and a pure mathematician who established abstract algebra as a subject of serious study in Britain. This edition of Collected Papers, enhanced by a series of critical essays, is of major importance to scholars in group theory and the history and philosophy of mathematics.
We must congratulate the editors for accomplishing so well the task of masking the work of a distinguished mathematician available to a much wider audience.