| Groups and Geometry Contributor(s): Lyndon, Roger C. (Author), Hitchin, N. J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521316944 ISBN-13: 9780521316941 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1985 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Group Theory - Mathematics | Algebra - General |
| Dewey: 512.2 |
| LCCN: 84021484 |
| Series: Cambridge English Prose Texts |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6" W x 9" (0.75 lbs) 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book, which was originally published in 1985 and has been translated and revised by the author from notes of a course, is an introduction to certain central ideas in group theory and geometry. Professor Lyndon emphasises and exploits the well-known connections between the two subjects and, whilst keeping the presentation at a level that assumes only a basic background in mathematics, leads the reader to the frontiers of current research at the time of publication. The treatment is concrete and combinatorial with a minimal use of analytic geometry. In the interest of the reader's intuition, most of the geometry considered is two-dimensional and there is an emphasis on examples, both in the text and in the problems at the end of each chapter. |