An Introduction to the Theory of Groups (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)
Edition: 4Rev Ed edition
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Published: December 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9783540942856
Subjects: Groups & group theory; Group theory
First sentence: Generalizations of the quadratic formula for cubic and quartic polynomials were discovered in the sixteenth century, and one of the major mathematical problems thereafter was to find analogous formulas for the roots of polynomials of higher degree; all attempts failed.