A seminal, much-cited account of combinatorial group theory — coauthored by a distinguished teacher of mathematics and a pair of his colleagues — this text for graduate students features numerous helpful exercises.
The book begins with a fairly elementary exposition of basic concepts and a discussion of factor groups and subgroups. The topics of Nielsen transformations, free and amalgamated products, and commutator calculus receive detailed treatment. The concluding chapter surveys word, conjugacy, and related problems; adjunction and embedding problems; varieties of groups; products of groups; and residual and Hopfian properties.
In addition to the exercises, which appear throughout the text, supplementary materials include an extensive bibliography of important books and monographs, as well as a list of theorems, corollaries, and definitions and a list of symbols and abbreviations.
Reprint of the Interscience Publishers, New York,1966 edition.
Availability | Out of Stock |
ISBN 10 | 0486438309 |
ISBN 13 | 9780486438306 |
Author/Editor | Donald Solitar, Wilhelm Magnus, Abraham Karrass |
Page Count | 464 |
Dimensions | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 |