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Combinatorial Group Theory: Presentations of Groups in Terms of Generators and Relations
by Wilhelm Magnus,Abraham Karrass,Donald Solitar

ISBN: 0486438309
Dover Publications Price: $27.95
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This seminal, much-cited account begins with a fairly elementary exposition of basic concepts and a discussion of factor groups and subgroups. The topics of Nielsen transformations, free and amalgamated products, and commutator calculus receive detailed treatment. The concluding chapter surveys word, conjugacy, and related problems; adjunction and embedding problems; and more. Second, revised 1976 edition.
Unabridged republication of the second, revised (1976) edition, originally published by Interscience Publishers, New York.

Table of Contents for Combinatorial Group Theory: Presentations of Groups in Terms of Generators and Relations
1. Basic Concepts
2. Factor Groups and Subgroups
3. Nielsen Transformations
4. Free Products and Free Products with Amalgamations
5. Commutator Calculus
6. Introduction to Some Recent Developments
References
List of Theorems, Corollaries and Definitions
List of Symbols and Abbreviations
Index

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