Enumeration of Finite Groups

di Simon R. Blackburn (Autore)

Peter M. Neumann (Autore)

Geetha Venkataraman (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

How many groups of order n are there? This is a natural question for anyone studying group theory, and this Tract provides an exhaustive and up-to-date account of research into this question spanning almost fifty years. The authors presuppose an undergraduate knowledge of group theory, up to and including Sylow's Theorems, a little knowledge of how a group may be presented by generators and relations, a very little representation theory from the perspective of module theory, and a very little cohomology theory - but most of the basics are expounded here and the book is more or less self-contained. Although it is principally devoted to a connected exposition of an agreeable theory, the book does also contain some material that has not hitherto been published. It is designed to be used as a graduate text but also as a handbook for established research workers in group theory.

• Autore: Simon R. Blackburn, Peter M. Neumann, Geetha Venkataraman
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 294 p.
• Dimensioni: 236 x 160 mm
• Peso: 532 gr.
• EAN: 9780521882170

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