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Glad to see a shout-out for Ronald Solomon. His group theory course was probably my favorite math class. That's more about the material than him; we just worked
by CurtMonash 13y ago
Glad to see a shout-out for Ronald Solomon. His group theory course was probably my favorite math class. That's more about the material than him; we just worked our way through the first part of Rotman. But he sure didn't do anything to wreck it.
E.g., there was the time before class started that for some reason I went to board and led the team in classifying finite groups up to order 60. He just paused at the door when he saw that, smiled, and didn't start class until we were done.
(Note: The reason that could be done in a few minutes is that for the purposes of the exercise, prime numbers are trivial, and so are integers that are the product of two distinct primes. That didn't leave a lot of other cases to worry about.)