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Review
' ... a very attractive textbook for any student interested in discrete mathematics.' International Mathematical News
Synopsis
The study of permutations groups has always been closely associated with that of highly symmetric structures. The objects considered here are countably infinite, but have only finitely many different substructures of any given finite size. This book discusses such structures, their substructures and their automorphism groups using a wide range of techniques.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-154) and index.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. Examples and growth rates; 4. Subgroups; 5. Miscellaneous topics.