Well, I did, after all that's why Évariste invented all the groupy stuff for isn't it. What really shocked me was the whence where it came to the fore.
We were working our [my, me, singular] way through some sedate colouring problems when, and this is always a flag when it comes to maths, we began to develop a new notation. Suddenly there it was—a group action on a set of colourings can be modelled using a polynomial.
So now I have yet another hero... Polya
Every so often people ask me if maths is hard. To which I say that it isn't. If you've done the hard work.
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I met another maths [and 'puter studies] gtad at last nights poetry recital. We were talking about classical studies in the interval when I mentioned that reading in Arouets Philosophical Dictionary that somewhere in Athens {the academy possibly} had an inscription set in stone above the door reading "let no-one who does not understand mathematics enter". It is a worthy subject indeed. Mandatory. Synonmous with my vocation: music. M.New comment
*grad [post graduate, akin to you]