Groups and Geometry

by Roger C. Lyndon

Book Overview

This book, which was originally published in 1985 and has been translated and revised by the author from notes of a course, is an introduction to certain central ideas in group theory and geometry. Professor Lyndon emphasises and exploits the well-known connections between the two subjects and, whilst keeping the presentation at a level that assumes only a basic background in mathematics, leads the reader to the frontiers of current research at the time of publication. The treatment is concrete and combinatorial with a minimal use of analytic geometry. In the interest of the reader's intuition, most of the geometry considered is two-dimensional and there is an emphasis on examples, both in the text and in the problems at the end of each chapter.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521316944
• ISBN13: 9780521316941
• Release Date: April 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"