A First Course in Group Theory

by Cyril F. Gardiner

One of the difficulties in an introductory book is to communicate a sense of purpose. Only too easily to the beginner does the book become a sequence of definitions, concepts, and results which seem little more than curiousities leading nowhere in particular. In this book I have tried to overcome this problem by making my central aim the determination of all possible groups of orders 1 to 15, together with some study of their structure. By the time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387905456
• ISBN13: 9780387905457
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"