Groups and Their Graphs / Israel Grossman, Wilhelm Magnus.
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TextSeries: Anneli Lax new mathematical libraryPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type: - text
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Front Cover -- Groups and Their Graphs -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction to Groups -- Chapter 2. Group Axioms -- Chapter 3. Examples of Groups -- Chapter 4. Multiplication Table of a Group -- Chapter 5. Generators of a Group -- Chapter 6. Graph of a Group -- Chapter 7. Definition of a Group by Generators and Relations -- Chapter 8. Subgroups -- Chapter 9. Mappings -- Chapter 10. Permutation Groups -- Chapter 11. Normal Subgroups -- Chapter 12. The Quaternion Group -- Chapter 13. Symmetric and Alternating Groups
Chapter 14. Path GroupsChapter 15. Groups and Wallpaper Designs -- Appendix: Group of the Dodecahedron and the Icosahedron -- Solutions -- Bibliography -- Index
The abstract nature of group theory makes its exposition, at an elementary level, difficult. The authors of the present volume have overcome this obstacle by leading the reader slowly from the concrete to the abstract, from the simple to the complex, employing effectively graphs or Cayley diagrams to hlep the student visualize some of the structural properties of groups. Among the concrete examples of groups, the authors include groups of congruence motions and groups of permutations. A conscientious reader will acquire a good intuitive grasp of this pwerful subject.
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