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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Subject: Re: group theory for HS students
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.190036.23210@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- References: <ARA.92Nov6191321@camelot.ai.mit.edu> <96656@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:00:36 GMT
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- weemba@sagi.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
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- >In article <ARA.92Nov6191321@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich (Allan Adler) writes:
- >>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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- >There are not too many that can even come close. G Papy GROUPS is an
- >obscure book, with lots of color to illustrate symmetry. Presumably
- >some of the Rubik's cube books may have what you want. A motivated
- >high school student should be able to follow Fraleigh's text.
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- >There is also, off to the side, Knuth SURREAL NUMBERS and E Landau
- >FOUNDATIONS OF ANALYSIS, and Lang's two Springer-Verlag paperbacks.
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- >And read the introduction to Dieudonne LINEAR ALGEBRA AND GEOMETRY.
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- This is a really weird list of recommendations!
-
- Group theory _is_ taught in schools in many countries,
- in fact I would suspect most countries in the western world.
- So there must be many school textbooks dealing with groups.
-
- I remember the British SMP (School Maths Project)
- had a very good series of school textbooks
- including quite sophisticated algebra
- some 20 years ago.
- I don't know if that project is still going?
-
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- Timothy Murphy
- e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
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