Download or read book Profinite Groups written by Luis Ribes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This self-contained book serves both as an introduction to profinite groups and as a reference for specialists in some areas of the theory. It contains complete and clear proofs for most results, many of which appear here in book form for the first time. Suitable as a basis for courses.