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Presentations of groups
- Title
- Presentations of groups / D. L. Johnson.
- Author
- Johnson, D. L.
- Publication
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [1990]
- ©1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QA171 .J59 1990 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- [xii], 204 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Having evolved from courses given to advanced undergraduate and first-year graduate students of mathematics, this book is primarily an introduction to combinatorial group theory. The emphasis is algebraic rather than topological and the book also introduces examples of groups and types of groups.
- Series Statement
- London Mathematical Society student texts ; 15
- Uniform Title
- London Mathematical Society student texts ; 15.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Instructional and educational works
- Instructional and educational works.
- Matériel d'éducation et de formation.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and index.
- Contents
- Free groups -- Schreier's method -- Nielsen's method -- Free presentations of groups -- Some popular groups -- The Heisenberg group -- Finitely-generated Abelian groups -- Finite groups with a few relations -- Coset enumeration -- Presentations of subgroups -- Presentations of group extensions -- Relation modules -- An algorithm for [capital italic]N/[capital italic]N' -- Finite [lowercase italic]p-groups -- The nilpotent quotient algorithm -- The Golod-Shafarevich theorem.
- ISBN
- 0521372038
- 9780521372039
- 0521378249
- 9780521378246
- LCCN
- 90184882
- OCLC
- ocm21744002
- 21744002
- SCSB-1958523
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library