Enumeration of Finite Groups

by Peter M. Neumann and Simon R. Blackburn

How many groups of order n are there? This is a natural question for anyone studying group theory, and this Tract provides an exhaustive and up-to-date account of research into this question spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to and including Sylow's Theorems, a little knowledge of how a group may be presented by generators and relations, a very little representation theory from the perspective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521882176
• ISBN13: 9780521882170
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.2"