Groups Around Us
by Pavel Etingof
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2018
Number of pages: 25
Description:
These are notes of a mini-course of group theory for high school students that I gave in the Summer of 2009. This mini-course covers the most basic parts of group theory with many examples and applications. The notes contain many exercises, which are necessary for understanding the main text.
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