When I was struggling with all that visualisation in M208 I found the algebraic form for Dihedral groups most helpful. Also the systematic way in which it is possible to assign a symmetry group to a solid that I believe having had a peek at the handbook is covered in your course.
Glad you are playing with the subject wish there was some play in Topology but it eludes me at the minute.
It's actually better than that! I haven't grasped the full import yet, but it's beginning to give me a glimmer of an answer to something which has always bothered me—how come we have all the finite simple groups?
I have solitaire to aid my topology, but the trick is to stick with the definitions. As always, seeing is often a weakness...
Take care, hopefully see you at the next tutorial.
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When I was struggling with all that visualisation in M208 I found the algebraic form for Dihedral groups most helpful. Also the systematic way in which it is possible to assign a symmetry group to a solid that I believe having had a peek at the handbook is covered in your course.
Glad you are playing with the subject wish there was some play in Topology but it eludes me at the minute.
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hi Chris
It's actually better than that! I haven't grasped the full import yet, but it's beginning to give me a glimmer of an answer to something which has always bothered me—how come we have all the finite simple groups?
I have solitaire to aid my topology, but the trick is to stick with the definitions. As always, seeing is often a weakness...
Take care, hopefully see you at the next tutorial.
nellie
ps your last blog has got me thinking...
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Send me an e-mail and we can discuss it off piste as it were. Usual address
chrisf19572002@yahoo.co.uk
Hopefully see you at the next tutorial.