M.A.

Armstrong, University of Durham, UK

Groups and Symmetry

Groups are important because they measure symmetry. This text, designed for under-
graduate mathematics students, provides a gentle introduction to the highlights of ele-
mentary group theory. Written in an informal style, the material is divided into short
sections each of which deals with an important result or a new idea. Throughout the
book, the emphasis is placed on concrete examples, many of them geometrical in nature,
so that finite rotation groups and the seventeen wallpaper groups are treated in detail
alongside theoretical results such as Lagrange's theorem, the Sylow theorems, and the
classification theorem for finitely generated abelian groups. A novel feature at this level
is a proof of the Nielsen-Schreier theorem, using group actions on trees. There are more
than three hundred exercises and approximately sixty illustrations to help develop the
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1988. 186 p. 54 illus. (Undergraduate Texts in

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