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Groups and Symmetry

M. A. Armstrong
Publisher: 
Springer Verlag
Publication Date: 
1997
Number of Pages: 
200
Format: 
Hardcover
Series: 
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Price: 
54.95
ISBN: 
0387966757
Category: 
Monograph
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 Preface. 1: Symmetries of the Tetrahedron. 2: Axioms. 3: Numbers. 4: Dihedral Groups. 5: Subgroups and Generators. 6: Permutations. 7: Isomorphisms. 8: Plato's Solids and Cayley's Theorem. 9: Matrix Groups. 10: Products. 11: Lagrange's Theorem. 12: Partitions. 13: Cauchy's Theorem. 14: Conjugacy. 15: Quotient Groups. 16: Homomorphisms. 17: Actions, Orbits, and Stabalizers. 18: Counting Orbits. 19: Finite Rotation Groups. 20: The Sylow Theorems. 21: Finitely Generated Abelian Groups. 22: Row and Column Operations. 23: Automorphisms. 24: The Euclidean Group. 25: Lattices and Point Groups. 26: Wallpaper Patterns. 27: Free Groups and Presentations. 28: Trees and the Nielsen-Schreier Theorem. Bibliography. Index.