Symmetry Groups and Their Applications
by Willard Miller
Publisher: Academic Press 1972
ISBN/ASIN: 0124974600
ISBN-13: 9780124974609
Description:
This is a beginning graduate level textbook on applied group theory. Only those aspects of group theory are treated which are useful in the physical sciences, but the mathematical apparatus underlying the applications is presented with a high degree of rigor.
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