Timeline for Categories First Or Categories Last In Basic Algebra?
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| Feb 11, 2019 at 12:50 | comment | added | Tim Porter | About methodology that I mentioned in the previous comment. I do think that how one does maths, why one does it in a particular way and so on, questions relating to the methodology of mathematics, are not given enough promenance in the training of lecturers. My own preference is seeing how and why a piece of maths works and that leads me naturally to a certain level of categorical langiuage and eventually of theory. I am not saying that there is a best methodological approach to algebra, merely saying that in preparing a course lecturers should ask themselves methodolgical questions. | |
| Feb 11, 2019 at 12:44 | history | edited | Tim Porter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2015 at 6:57 | comment | added | Tim Porter | Not really as I never had to teach that side of group theory. I think I would have liked a semi-historical or philosophical a approach, i.e. one in which the question of why Sylow theory was discovered/developed was discussed briefly. The methodology of the subject needed more justification, for me that is. | |
| Oct 6, 2015 at 11:29 | comment | added | Arrow | This is not related to the question, but have you found satisfying motivation for Sylow theory in terms of what is usually given as 'earlier material'? | |
| Oct 7, 2010 at 16:26 | history | edited | Mike Shulman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Oct 5, 2010 at 7:08 | history | answered | Tim Porter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |