Visual Group TheoryGroup theory is the branch of mathematics that studies symmetry, found in crystals, art, architecture, music and many other contexts, but its beauty is lost on students when it is taught in a technical style that is difficult to understand. Visual Group Theory assumes only a high school mathematics background and covers a typical undergraduate course in group theory from a thoroughly visual perspective. The more than 300 illustrations in Visual Group Theory bring groups, subgroups, homomorphisms, products, and quotients into clear view. Every topic and theorem is accompanied with a visual demonstration of its meaning and import, from the basics of groups and subgroups through advanced structural concepts such as semidirect products and Sylow theory. |
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Contents
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What do groups look like? | 11 |
Why study groups? | 25 |
Algebra at last | 41 |
Five families | 63 |
Subgroups | 97 |
Products and quotients | 117 |
Sylow theory | 193 |
Galois theory | 221 |
Answers to selected Exercises | 261 |
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About the Author | 297 |
Back cover | 298 |
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| Title | Visual Group Theory Volume 32 of Classroom Resource Materials |
| Author | Nathan Carter |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | American Mathematical Soc., 2009 |
| ISBN | 088385757X, 9780883857571 |
| Length | 295 pages |
| Subjects | › Mathematics / General |
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