Timeline for Applications of Group Theory Which Motivate Theoretical Questions?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Feb 15, 2011 at 15:24 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by S. Carnahan♦ | ||
| Feb 15, 2011 at 15:21 | comment | added | KConrad | Your comment about seeing "whether this group is trivial" for Galois theory is very misleading. Nobody discovers that a polynomial splits over the rationals by computing that its Galois group is trivial. | |
| Feb 15, 2011 at 11:47 | answer | added | none | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 23, 2010 at 7:47 | comment | added | Victor Protsak | If you are going to post anything on the web, don't neglect the visual part (crystals make for great illustrations!). There are very nice cartoons in "Indra's Pearls" that lighten up abstract theory, but they are copyrighted, obviously. | |
| May 23, 2010 at 3:15 | answer | added | Jack Schmidt | timeline score: 5 | |
| May 23, 2010 at 2:57 | comment | added | Gjergji Zaimi | See also mathoverflow.net/questions/13320/… | |
| May 23, 2010 at 2:55 | answer | added | KConrad | timeline score: 12 | |
| May 23, 2010 at 2:50 | comment | added | Arturo Magidin | How about Quantum Mechanics? | |
| May 23, 2010 at 2:39 | history | asked | Noah | CC BY-SA 2.5 |