Group theory is the mathematics of symmetry and Mark Ronan’s book “Symmetry and the Monster” has greatly helped me to learn and understand the fundamentals of group theory and especially simple finite groups.
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I came across this great web site today after working through some notes I had found on-line by Blake Stacey about Group Theory. FGB stands for Finite Group Behaviour and is a Windows 98 program. I have downloaded the program and associated documentation to try it. It looks very promising indeed as a learning aid. After checking it out I will register, as requested by sending my contact details to Dr. Keppelmann.
http://wolfweb.unr.edu/homepage/keppelma/fgb.html
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This book is available on-line from the Cornell University Library Digital Collections:
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This book has been an enthralling and fascinating read for me. Mark Ronan outlines the mathematics of symmetry and details its historical development from Evariste Galois’s letter of May 1832 to about 2005.
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