MW9@PSUVM.BITNET (08/17/86)
So we've got a group. Now what do we do?
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Michael S. Weiss
The Pennsylvania State University
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gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) (09/02/86)
In article <6923MW9@PSUVM> MW9@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >So we've got a group. Now what do we do? What I usually do is check first to see if it is finite or infinite. If it is finite, is it abelian? What are its normal subgroups? If it turns out to be a non-abelian simple group, then I try to construct it as a galois group over Q, because that really turns me on. I'm a wild party animal when it comes to generic extensions of groups! What do YOU do?? ucbvax!brahms!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 "What is algebra exactly? Is it those three-cornered things?"J.M. Barrie
gsmith@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Gene Ward Smith) (09/02/86)
In article <6923MW9@PSUVM> MW9@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >So we've got a group. Now what do we do? What I usually do is check first to see if it is finite or infinite. If it is finite, is it abelian? What are its normal subgroups? If it turns out to be a non-abelian simple group, then I try to construct it as a galois group over Q, because that really turns me on. I'm a wild party animal when it comes to generic galois extensions of Q! What do YOU do?? ucbvax!brahms!gsmith Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720 "What is algebra exactly? Is it those three-cornered things?"J.M. Barrie