Groups: A Path to Geometry
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521300371 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Customer said Instruction by Question. R. P. Burn is an amazing writer for mathematical textbooks.This book follows Burn's typical format; therefore, this text is little more than a collection of (very) brief introductions to terminology and concepts, followed by a long list of questions for each chapter. Finally, each chapter has an ans
Burn's previous book on number theory, this text consists of a carefully constructed sequence of questions that will enable the reader, through participation, to study all the group theory covered by a conventional first university course. Following the same successful approach as Dr. Quaternions and their relationships to 3-dimensional isometries are covered, and the climax of the book is a study of the crystallographic groups, with a complete analysis of these groups in two dimensions.. An introduction to vector spaces, leading to the study of linear groups, and an introduction to complex numbers, leadi
The approach of the book is one of development by discovery. There is almost no text as such-the reader being invited to learn about the groups through a sequence of over 800 problems." Times Higher Education Supplement . "What distinguishes this book from all others? Simply, it is not a textbook in the normal sense
. Burn is an Honorary University Fellow at the University of Exeter. R. His other titles include Groups: A Path to Geometry (1985) and A Pathway into Number Theory (1982). P