This book is based on a one-semester course for advanced
undergraduates specializing in physical chemistry. I am aware that
the mathematical training of most science majors is more heavily
weighted towards analysis - typ- ally calculus and differential
equations - than towards algebra. But it remains my conviction that
the basic ideas and applications of group theory are not only
vital, but not dif?cult to learn, even though a formal mathematical
setting with emphasis on rigor and completeness is not the place
where most chemists would feel most comfortable in learning them.
The presentation here is short, and limited to those aspects of
symmetry and group theory that are directly useful in interpreting
molecular structure and spectroscopy. Nevertheless I hope that the
reader will begin to sense some of the beauty of the subject.
Symmetry is at the heart of our understanding of the physical laws
of nature. If a reader is happy with what appears in this book, I
must count this a success. But if the book motivates a reader to
move deeper into the subject, I shall be grati?ed.
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