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From Groups to Geometry and Back
About this Title
Vaughn Climenhaga, University of Houston, Houston, TX and Anatole Katok, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Publication: The Student Mathematical Library
Publication Year:
2017; Volume 81
ISBNs: 978-1-4704-3479-3 (print); 978-1-4704-3753-4 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/stml/081
MathSciNet review: MR3618066
MSC: Primary 20-01; Secondary 51M09, 57M05, 57M07, 57Sxx
Table of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Elements of group theory
- Symmetry in the Euclidean world: Groups of isometries of planar and spatial objects
- Groups of matrices: Linear algebra and symmetry in various geometries
- Fundamental group: A different kind of group associated to geometric objects
- From groups to geometric objects and back
- Groups at large scale