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Groups and Symmetry: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics
Share this pageDavid W. Farmer
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
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.
Also available from the AMS by David W. Farmer is
Knots and Surfaces: A Guide to
Discovering Mathematics.
Readership
Undergraduate students, graduate students, and research mathematicians interested in an introduction to modern areas of mathematics.
Reviews & Endorsements
Nicely produced and concentrates on the informal analysis of geometrical patterns with the emphasis on informality … could serve as a useful collection of activities to precede a formal course and would provide a range of intuitive experiences to which the more formal treatment could refer.
-- The Mathematical Gazette
On the basis of this book it is possible to tailor a good course for high school students to really discover mathematics … for anyone who is working with high school students in an advanced level the book is really recommended.
-- Zentralblatt MATH
Written in a lively conversational style … entertaining, and sometimes provoking, and will doubtlessly prove useful to its intended audience.
-- Mathematical Reviews
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Groups and Symmetry: A Guide to Discovering Mathematics
- Cover Cover11 free
- Title iii4 free
- Copyright iv5 free
- Table of Contents v6 free
- Chapter 1. Squares, Hexagons, and Triangles 110 free
- Chapter 2. The Rigid Motions of the Plane 1524
- Chapter 3. Finite Figures 2736
- Chapter 4. Strip Patterns 3948
- Chapter 5. Wallpatterns 4352
- Chapter 6. Finite Groups 5968
- Chapter 7. Cayley Diagrams 7382
- Chapter 8. Symmetry in the Real World 8796
- Bibliography 99108
- Index 101110 free
- Back Cover Back Cover1112