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- From: mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin)
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- Subject: Re: Less Groups! More Representations! (was: Symmetries, groups, and categories)
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- Date: 4 Sep 92 21:48:52 GMT
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- columbus@rachmaninoff.think.com (Michael Weiss) writes:
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- >In article <mcirvin.715559228@husc8> mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu (Mcirvin) writes:
- > Indeed, the first course I took in abstract algebra dealt *only* with
- > finite Abelian groups!
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- >Only finite Abelian groups?! Matrix groups were not even mentioned? (I
- >don't mean anything elaborate, just the bare fact that, say, GL(n) is an
- >example of a group.)
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- I think they were mentioned, yes. But we never worked with them.
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- >How about Cayley's theorem?
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- Nope. The class was pretty pathetic.
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- Matt McIrvin, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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