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9780521316941: Groups and Geometry

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

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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.

Contenuti

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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