GROUPS, COMBINATORICS AND GEOMETRY - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9812383123 ISBN 13: 9789812383129

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

Over the past 20 years, the theory of groups -- in particular simple groups, finite and algebraic -- has influenced a number of diverse areas of mathematics. Such areas include topics where groups have been traditionally applied, such as algebraic combinatorics, finite geometries, Galois theory and permutation groups, as well as several more recent developments. Among the latter are probabilistic and computational group theory, the theory of algebraic groups over number fields, and model theory, in each of which there has been a major recent impetus provided by simple group theory. In addition, there is still great interest in local analysis in finite groups, with substantial new input from methods of geometry and amalgams, and particular emphasis on the revision project for the classification of finite simple groups.This important book contains 20 survey articles covering many of the above developments. It should prove invaluable for those working in the theory of groups and its applications.

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Book Description

Since the classification of finite simple groups was announced in 1980 the subject has continued to expand opening many new areas of research. This volume contains a collection of papers, both survey and research, arising from the 1990 Durham conference in which the excellent progress of the decade was surveyed and new goals considered.

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Readership: Graduate students, researchers and academics in algebra

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 9812383123
• ISBN 13: 9789812383129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 348
• Editor: Ivanov Alexander Anatolievich, Liebeck Martin W, Saxl Jan