Groups and symmetry: A guide to discovering mathematics

✍ Scribed by David W. Farmer

• Book ID: 127455253
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Series: Mathematical World, Vol. 5
• Edition: AMS
• Category: Library
• ISBN-13: 9780821804506

✦ Synopsis

In most mathematics textbooks, the most exciting part of mathematics--the process of invention and discovery--is completely hidden from the reader. The aim of Groups and Symmetry is to change all that. By means of a series of carefully selected tasks, this book leads readers to discover some real mathematics. There are no formulas to memorize; no procedures to follow. The book is a guide: Its job is to start you in the right direction and to bring you back if you stray too far. Discovery is left to you.

Suitable for a one-semester course at the beginning undergraduate level, there are no prerequisites for understanding the text. Any college student interested in discovering the beauty of mathematics will enjoy a course taught from this book. The book has also been used successfully with nonscience students who want to fulfill a science requirement.