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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you are thinking of buying this book to help you with your OU course - don't! I gave one star, but the book doesn't deserve it.
This book uses a style of notation that is hard to follow. In particular, functions are placed the 'wrong' way round. In other words, the argument to a function is written *before* the function. This is contrary to all other books I have seen on Group Theory; in fact, contrary to all the mathematics books I have seen.
An example: If you have done trigonometry, you would be familiar with writing "sin(x)" as the function "sin" operating on the argument "x". But this book would write this as "x sin", but with "sin" written as a subscript.
If you want to practice reading gobbledy-gook maths, this may be the book for you. If so, you will need a magnifying glass to read the superscripts on the subscripts. A pack of paracetamol would help, too.
I forgot the groupoids and semigroups. These are rarely mentioned in other texts, and are quickly left behind, but if you want to understand this Schaum book, you will have no choice but to become familiar with them. If you are struggling now, I guarantee you that this book will *not* make life easier for you.
If you want a decent book on group theory, consider "A Course in Group Theory" by Humphreys.
This book uses a style of notation that is hard to follow. In particular, functions are placed the 'wrong' way round. In other words, the argument to a function is written *before* the function. This is contrary to all other books I have seen on Group Theory; in fact, contrary to all the mathematics books I have seen.
An example: If you have done trigonometry, you would be familiar with writing "sin(x)" as the function "sin" operating on the argument "x". But this book would write this as "x sin", but with "sin" written as a subscript.
If you want to practice reading gobbledy-gook maths, this may be the book for you. If so, you will need a magnifying glass to read the superscripts on the subscripts. A pack of paracetamol would help, too.
I forgot the groupoids and semigroups. These are rarely mentioned in other texts, and are quickly left behind, but if you want to understand this Schaum book, you will have no choice but to become familiar with them. If you are struggling now, I guarantee you that this book will *not* make life easier for you.
If you want a decent book on group theory, consider "A Course in Group Theory" by Humphreys.
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Studying a OU course I found it helpful to see another way of looking describing and exampling the points in this area of math.
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The authors obviously know a lot about their subject field and I'm not here to point out any mistakes from the book. Read more
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I ordered this book to help me when I was struggling with a Group Theory course in the third year of university. All I can say is that this book is a lifesaver. Read more
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Schaum's Outline of Group Theory
This book follows the format of most of the other books in the Schaum's outline series; it's very direct and to the point and covers a good range of undergraduate Group Theory. Read more
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Not the most inspirational of subjects but looks like it will cover everything I need before my next OU course
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