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If a dry presentation of groups doesn't excite you, then there's plenty of books that are full of examples and motivations. Personally, I prefer the dry stuff
by khazhoux 9y ago
If a dry presentation of groups doesn't excite you, then there's plenty of books that are full of examples and motivations.
Personally, I prefer the dry stuff (e.g., Herstein) because that's the abstract-est abstraction. Rotations and matrices are groups? Don't care. I just wanna see the strange hidden properties of abstract structures reveal themselves.
- gunnihinn 9y ago> Rotations and matrices are groups? Don't care. I just wanna see the strange hidden properties of abstract structures reveal themselves. ... for example by noting that rotations and matrices form a group?