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Category : Algebra
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Algebras, Groups, and Geometries
Author: From Groups to Geometry and Back
Author: Vaughn ClimenhagaPublisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1470434792
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Groups arise naturally as symmetries of geometric objects, and so groups can be used to understand geometry and topology. Conversely, one can study abstract groups by using geometric techniques and ultimately by treating groups themselves as geometric objects. This book explores these connections between group theory and geometry, introducing some of the main ideas of transformation groups, algebraic topology, and geometric group theory. The first half of the book introduces basic notions of group theory and studies symmetry groups in various geometries, including Euclidean, projective, and hyperbolic. The classification of Euclidean isometries leads to results on regular polyhedra and polytopes; the study of symmetry groups using matrices leads to Lie groups and Lie algebras. The second half of the book explores ideas from algebraic topology and geometric group theory. The fundamental group appears as yet another group associated to a geometric object and turns out to be a symmetry group using covering spaces and deck transformations. In the other direction, Cayley graphs, planar models, and fundamental domains appear as geometric objects associated to groups. The final chapter discusses groups themselves as geometric objects, including a gentle introduction to Gromov's theorem on polynomial growth and Grigorchuk's example of intermediate growth. The book is accessible to undergraduate students (and anyone else) with a background in calculus, linear algebra, and basic real analysis, including topological notions of convergence and connectedness. This book is a result of the MASS course in algebra at Penn State University in the fall semester of 2009.
New Frontiers in Algebras, Groups and Geometries
Author: Grigorios T. TsagasPublisher:
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Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Algebra VII
Author: D.J. CollinsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642580130
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
From the reviews: "... The book under review consists of two monographs on geometric aspects of group theory ... Together, these two articles form a wide-ranging survey of combinatorial group theory, with emphasis very much on the geometric roots of the subject. This will be a useful reference work for the expert, as well as providing an overview of the subject for the outsider or novice. Many different topics are described and explored, with the main results presented but not proved. This allows the interested reader to get the flavour of these topics without becoming bogged down in detail. Both articles give comprehensive bibliographies, so that it is possible to use this book as the starting point for a more detailed study of a particular topic of interest. ..." Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 1996
Geometries, Groups and Algebras in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Isaak Moiseevich I︠A︡glomPublisher: Ishi Press
ISBN: 9784871878364
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
I. M. Yaglom has written a very accessible history of 19th century mathematics, with emphasis on interesting biographies of the leading protagonists and on the subjects most closely related to the work of Klein and Lie, whose own work is not discussed in detail until late in the book. Starting with Galois and his contribution to the evolving subject of group theory Yaglom gives a beautiful account of the lives and works of the major players in the development of the subject in the nineteenth century: Jordan, who was a teacher of Lie and Klein in Paris and their adventures during the Franco-Prussian War. Monge and Poncelet developing projective geometry as well as Bolyai, Gauss and Lobachevsky and their discovery of hyperbolic geometry. Riemann's contributions and the development of modern linear Algebra by Grassmann, Cayley and Hamilton are described in detail. The last two chapters are devoted to Lie's development of Lie Algebras and his construction of the geometry from a continuous group and Klein's Erlanger Programm unifying the different approaches to geometry by emphasizing automorphism groups. These last pages are definitely the climax of the book.
Groups and Geometry
Author: P. M. NeumannPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198534518
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Contains the Oxford Mathematical Institute notes for undergraduate and first-year postgraduates. The first half of the book covers groups, the second half covers geometry and both parts contain a number of exercises.
Finite Groups and Finite Geometries
Author: T. TsuzukuPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521222427
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A 1982 introduction to developments which had taken place in finite group theory related to finite geometries.
Generators and Relations in Groups and Geometries
Author: A. BarlottiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401133824
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Every group is represented in many ways as an epimorphic image of a free group. It seems therefore futile to search for methods involving generators and relations which can be used to detect the structure of a group. Nevertheless, results in the indicated direction exist. The clue is to ask the right question. Classical geometry is a typical example in which the factorization of a motion into reflections or, more generally, of a collineation into central collineations, supplies valuable information on the geometric and algebraic structure. This mode of investigation has gained momentum since the end of last century. The tradition of geometric-algebraic interplay brought forward two branches of research which are documented in Parts I and II of these Proceedings. Part II deals with the theory of reflection geometry which culminated in Bachmann's work where the geometric information is encoded in properties of the group of motions expressed by relations in the generating involutions. This approach is the backbone of the classification of motion groups for the classical unitary and orthogonal planes. The axioms in this char acterization are natural and plausible. They provoke the study of consequences of subsets of axioms which also yield natural geometries whose exploration is rewarding. Bachmann's central axiom is the three reflection theorem, showing that the number of reflections needed to express a motion is of great importance.
Algebras, Groups, and Geometries
Author: Groups, Combinatorics and Geometry
Author: Martin W. LiebeckPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521406854
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
This volume contains a collection of papers on the subject of the classification of finite simple groups.