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Wilhelm Magnus was an extraordinarily creative mathematician who made fundamental contributions to diverse areas, including group theory, geometry, and special functions. This book contains the proceedings of a conference held in May 1992 at Polytechnic University to honor the memory of Magnus. The focus of the book is on active areas of current research where Magnus' influence can be seen. The papers range from expository articles to major new research, bringing together seemingly diverse topics and providing entry points to a variety of areas of mathematics. ... Read more

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A layman review
The book is a classical work on this very specific topic and contains a summary which is understandable to the layman of nearly one century of work on those equations. It is a very good start to follow more recent work on that topic ... Read more

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Lots of groups, very few of "their graphs"
This elementary introduction to group theory is supposed to be unique in its use of graphs to represent groups (Cayley diagrams), which would be an interesting and fresh approach to teaching group theory. But no, the authors don't deliver what they promised. It's the same old group theory, with a few Cayley diagrams thrown in here and there. Of the few Cayley diagrams that actually appear, many are so very trivial that they just seem stupid (C_n, Z, etc.). In fact there are only two nontrivial Cayley diagrams in the whole book: the quaternion group and the icosahedral group (last page).

Superb introduction
Graphs are a superb tool for understanding groups and for some reason are not usually taught in the usual introduction to group theory.This book is strictly an elementary introduction to group theory, but I believe it is the best introduction around.If you don't know any group theory and want to get into it, start here.If you know some group theory, but not about graphs of groups, then pick this book up. ... Read more

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LARGE AND HANDSOME BOOK ASSOCIATED WITH THE DIARY OF THE NOTED SWEDISH-SPEAKING FINNISH ORNITHOLOGIST AND PAINTER BROTHERS .VERY RARE. ... Read more

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Kapitel: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Ferdinand Von Wright, Robert Wilhelm Ekman, Magnus Enckell, Fanny Churberg, Pekka Halonen, Helene Schjerfbeck, Rabbe Enckell, Kalervo Palsa, Magnus Von Wright, Hugo Simberg, Andreas Alariesto, Albert Edelfelt, Amélie Helga Lundahl, Kaj Stenvall, Werner Holmberg. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Hugo Kalervo Palsa (March 12, 1947 - October 3, 1987), or Kalle was a Finnish artist in a style that has been described as fantastic realism. Long neglected, Kalervo Palsa has enjoyed a revival of sorts since the publication of critical works, a biography and two major retrospectives in Helsinki and Pori. Among his local contemporaries of Kittilä in Lapland he had the reputation of a drunken artist masturbating at home and painting furiously. He is said to have felt haunted both by his perverse urges and the provincial and narrow-minded mental perimeter of his northern hometown. While he lived there, his abode was a tiny studio cabin which was closer to a shack than a house. He wired it for electricity by drawing a long extension cable from a nearby house. He called it his "Getsemane" after the biblical site, or sometimes his "castle in the clouds". Upon his death two rumours spread in the local community. One that he had in a drunken stupor collapsed into a snowbank, and died from exposure. The other that he had hanged himself. The latter was more understandable, since several of his self-portraits featured a hangman's noose around his neck, and several other of his paintings also used the symbology of hanging. The real circumstances of his death - lying in bed with pneumonia, without anyone checking to see how he was doing - were perhaps, and regrettably more fitting to an artist, but not to the figure they knew. During his life he had many artist friends such as Reidar Särestöniemi, but only two real supporters; his mother, and a soul-mate/muse he found in Maj-Lis Pitkänen, a psychiatrist spec...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more