Groups, a Path to Geometry

R. P. Burn

ISBN 10: 0521300371 / ISBN 13: 9780521300377

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985

About this Item

Book is in very good condition with only slight shelf-wear. Previous owner's name on first inside page. Bindings firm and tight, spine intact. Size: 23 x 16 x 2 cm. xii, 242 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Mathematics; Group theory; Transformation groups; Geometry; Representations of groups; Semigroups; Abelian groups; ISBN: 0521300371. ISBN/EAN: 9780521300377. Add. Inventory No: 240426ROSY002846.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Groups, a Path to Geometry
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521300371
• ISBN 13: 9780521300377
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics

About this title

Synopsis

Following the same successful approach as Dr. Burn's previous book on number theory, this text consists of a carefully constructed sequence of questions that will enable the reader, through participation, to study all the group theory covered by a conventional first university course. An introduction to vector spaces, leading to the study of linear groups, and an introduction to complex numbers, leading to the study of Möbius transformations and stereographic projection, are also included. Quaternions and their relationships to 3-dimensional isometries are covered, and the climax of the book is a study of the crystallographic groups, with a complete analysis of these groups in two dimensions.

From the Back Cover

This book follows the same successful approach as Dr. Burn's previous book on number theory. It consists of a carefully constructed sequence of questions which will enable the reader, through his or her own participation, to generate all the group theory covered by a conventional first university course.