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Description for Groups and Symmetry
Hardcover. Presents an introduction to the vocabulary and many of the highlights of elementary group theory. This book includes more than 300 exercises and approximately 60 illustrations. Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Num Pages: 187 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PBG. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 18. Weight in Grams: 468.
Groups are important because they measure symmetry. This text, designed for undergraduate mathematics students, provides a gentle introduction to the highlights of elementary group theory. Written in an informal style, the material is divided into short sections each of which deals with an important result or a new idea. Throughout the book, the emphasis is placed on concrete examples, many of them geometrical in nature, so that finite rotation groups and the seventeen wallpaper groups are treated in detail alongside theoretical results such as Lagrange's theorem, the Sylow theorems, and the classification theorem for finitely generated abelian groups. A novel ... Read more
Groups are important because they measure symmetry. This text, designed for undergraduate mathematics students, provides a gentle introduction to the highlights of elementary group theory. Written in an informal style, the material is divided into short sections each of which deals with an important result or a new idea. Throughout the book, the emphasis is placed on concrete examples, many of them geometrical in nature, so that finite rotation groups and the seventeen wallpaper groups are treated in detail alongside theoretical results such as Lagrange's theorem, the Sylow theorems, and the classification theorem for finitely generated abelian groups. A novel ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
198
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Series
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
187
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387966755
SKU
V9780387966755
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Reviews for Groups and Symmetry
M.A. Armstrong Groups and Symmetry "This book is a gentle introductory text on group theory and its application to the measurement of symmetry. It covers most of the material that one might expect to see in an undergraduate course . . . The theory is amplified, exemplified and properly related to what this part of algebra ... Read more