This modules explores how groups were introduced in an attempt to study one of the most fundamental aspects of nature: symmetry. As an example, the 6 symmetries of an equilateral triangle form a group: every symmetry has a counterpart inverse symmetry, and any two symmetries can be combined to obtain another. Since the concept of symmetry is so widely applicable, the theory of groups touches almost every branch of pure and applied mathematics.
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