Wow! eBook
Group theory
Author(s): The Open University (Author)
- Publisher: The Open University
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2018
- Language: English
- Print length: 14 pages
- ISBN-10: B07H96WHVL
- ISBN-13: 9781473026131
Book Description
This free course consolidates and builds on group theory studied at OU level 2 or equivalent. Section 1 describes how to construct a group called the direct product of two given groups, and then describes certain conditions under which a group can be regarded as the direct product of its subgroups. Section 2 describes the key properties of the structure of cyclic groups. Section 3 introduces the notion of a set of generators of a group and a set of relations among the generators. It then looks at a family of finite groups, the dicyclic groups.
