Title Groups, a path to geometry / R.P. Burn

Edition First paperback edition with corrections Published Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Description xii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Functions -- 2. Permutations of a finite set -- 3. Groups of permutations of R and C -- 4. The Mḇius group -- 5. The regular solids -- 6. Abstract groups -- 7. Inversions of the Mḇius plane and stereographic projection -- 8. Equivalence relations -- 9. Cosets -- 10. Direct product -- 11. Fields and vector spaces -- 12. Linear transformations -- 13. The general linear group GL(2, F) -- 14. The vector space V3 (F) -- 15. Eigenvectors and eigenvalues -- 16. Homomorphisms -- 17. Conjugacy -- 18. Linear fractional groups -- 19. Quaternions and rotations -- 20. Affine groups -- 21. Orthogonal groups -- 22. Discrete groups fixing a line -- 23. Wallpaper groups -- Bibliography -- Index Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages [236]-237 Subject Geometry. Group theory. Transformation groups. LC no. 84021354 ISBN 0521300371

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