Groups and Geometry

This 1985 book is an introduction to certain central ideas in group theory and geometry.

List 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.

Summary

This 1985 book 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 leads the reader to the frontiers of current research at the time of publication.

Product details

• Authors: Roger C. Lyndon
• Assisted by: N. J. Hitchin (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2011
• EAN: 9780521316941
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31694-1
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Series: Cambridge English Prose Texts
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics