Timeline for Elementary + short + useful
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| Aug 2 at 14:14 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 8, 2011 at 16:48 | comment | added | LSpice | Once one knows a bit of representation theory, one is certainly set up to appreciate this as a surprising and exciting result; but, for a typical undergraduate audience, I would think one would have first to define a representation—which, itself, if done and motivated well, should take a big chunk of the time. | |
| Apr 4, 2011 at 15:08 | comment | added | Johannes Ebert | When I was an undergraduate, I was persuaded to read Serres book when an older student told me about that result. | |
| Apr 4, 2011 at 14:46 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | This is certainly a high point in a first course on representation theory, but why is it a worthy stand-alone topic? Will it be useful to a student who otherwise knows no representation theory? (Or will it persuade a student to study representation theory?) | |
| Apr 4, 2011 at 8:51 | history | answered | Johannes Ebert | CC BY-SA 2.5 |