Groups: An Introduction to Ideas and Methods of the Theory of Groups by Antonio Machì
English | 2012 | ISBN-10: 884702420X | 384 pages | PDF | 3,8 MB
Groups are a means of classification, via the group action on a set, but also the object of a classification. How many groups of a given type are there, and how can they be described? Hölder’s program for attacking this problem in the case of finite groups is a sort of leitmotiv throughout the text.