Transformation Groups for Beginners

• Author(s): Sergeĭ Vasilʹevich Duzhin, Boris Dmitrievich Chebotarevskiĭ,
• Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
• Pages: 246
• ISBN_10: 0821836439
  ISBN_13: 9780821836439
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Mathematics / General , Mathematics / Algebra / General , Mathematics / Group Theory , Mathematics / Transformations , Mathematics / Topology ,

Description:... Presents a discussion of algebraic operations on the points in the plane and rigid motions in the Euclidean plane. This work introduces the notions of a transformation group and of an abstract group. It gives an elementary exposition of the basic ideas of Sophus Lie about symmetries of differential equations.