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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Subject: group theory for HS students
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Nov6191321@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
- Distribution: sci
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 00:13:21 GMT
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- In my high school, I was taught in 11th grade what a group is and what
- a field is. I was somewhat shocked recently to learn that there are
- accredited universities (e.g. the one in my neighborhood in RI)
- which apparently do not offer undergraduate courses in abstract algebra
- and where graduate students do not learn what a group is until their
- second year.
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- I would be interested in having the names and authors and publishers
- of books that teach abstract algebra and which say explicitly that they
- are aimed at high school students.
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- My purpose is twofold:
- (1) to persuade some grad students that it was not God who decided that
- you need a BA in math and a year of grad school before learning what
- a group is.
- (2) to provide materials that they stand a chance of being able to read.
-
- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
-