Download or read book Transformation Groups for Beginners written by Sergeĭ Vasilʹevich Duzhin and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a discussion of algebraic operations on the points in the plane and rigid motions in the Euclidean plane. This work introduces the notions of a transformation group and of an abstract group. It gives an elementary exposition of the basic ideas of Sophus Lie about symmetries of differential equations.