Timeline for Motivating Algebra and Analysis for Average Undergraduates
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| Dec 3, 2011 at 16:09 | answer | added | gggg gggg | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 3, 2011 at 4:10 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | Jon Bannon avert your eyes now! Everyone else, a partial spoiler is coming. While a certain amount of calculation is required, I need to turn the hypothesis into the (equivalent?) notion that every element of the group is a cube . Is there a route through the problem that does not use the notion? Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2011.11.02 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 23:22 | history | edited | JRN |
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| Nov 2, 2011 at 15:33 | history | edited | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 2, 2011 at 14:17 | answer | added | Steven Spallone | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 13:57 | answer | added | Steven Gubkin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 13:53 | answer | added | Steven Gubkin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 13:44 | answer | added | Steven Gubkin | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 12:05 | comment | added | Jon Bannon | @Frank: A few friends and I were thinking about just this the other day. So far, though, there is always a tad of brute force tinkering involved. I'd love to find a nice solution. If someone does, please don't post it...but perhaps send it via e-mail. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 5:18 | answer | added | roy smith | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 4:30 | comment | added | Kimball | When I was a student, the book we used for our first algebra course was Stillwell's Elements of Algebra, which I thought was very nice and suitable for a liberal arts college. In one semester one introduces fields, groups and enough Galois theory to get to the insolubility of a quintic, construction of n-gons and trisection of angles. | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 1:46 | answer | added | Alexander Woo | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 1:46 | comment | added | Frank Thorne | Is there a "nice" proof to the Herstein problem? (i.e., one where you don't first show by computation that always ab^2 = b^2 a or something similar) | |
| Nov 2, 2011 at 0:33 | comment | added | Jon Bannon |
@Thierry: Many of our math majors will become secondary math teachers, some will become actuaries and will go into industry or computer science. At my institution, I think the mean' would lie in the secondary education region. I didn't emphasize this in asking the question, since I didn't want a list of answers aimed at applications potentially useful for future teachers. I'm more interested in giving our students experience with living mathematics' than I am with their finding it `useful' in their future endeavors.
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| Nov 2, 2011 at 0:02 | answer | added | Thierry Zell | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 22:59 | comment | added | Thierry Zell | As a fellow liberal arts college person, I have to ask: What exactly do you mean by average undergraduate math major? I am not sure it will really change the nature of the answers that you get here, but it should certainly change the nature of the answers you give to your students. | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 21:25 | answer | added | Michael Joyce | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 19:35 | answer | added | Alexander Woo | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 19:29 | answer | added | Christopher A. Wong | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 18:46 | answer | added | Daniel Fleisher | timeline score: 6 | |
| Nov 1, 2011 at 18:36 | history | edited | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2011 at 18:30 | history | asked | Jon Bannon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |