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Groups and Geometry

Groups and Geometry

Groups and Geometry

Roger C. Lyndon
March 1985
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    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.

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    March 1985
    Paperback
    9780521316941
    230 pages
    228 × 152 × 14 mm
    0.348kg
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    Table of Contents

    • 1. Symmetries and groups
    • 2. Isometries of the Euclidian Plane
    • 3. Subgroups of the groups of isometries of the plane
    • 4. Discontinuous groups of isometries of the Euclidean plane: plane crystallographic groups
    • 5. Regular tesselations in higher dimensions
    • 6. Incidence geometry of the affine plane
    • 7. Projective geometry
    • 8. Inversive geometry
    • 9. Hyperbolic geometry
    • 10. Fuscian groups
    • References
    • Index.
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    • Roger C. Lyndon