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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Other What are some good books for learning Galois Theory?.Those notes 844-1, 844-2, of mine linked in post #12, have as prerecquisite the earlier notes 843-1, 843-2, on the same webpage...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread I 2-sphere intrinsic definition by gluing disks' boundaries.apparently (by Smale's h-cobordism theorem) the crux is the pseudo-isotopy class of the (orientation preserving) gluing map...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid.some arithmetic: according to AI, there are about 50 million public school students in the US, and to extend the school year by 10 weeks...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Random Thoughts 7.my wife came back from the fancy store- with- everything today with a bag of polenta, and a photo of the bag of "gluten free polenta"...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread Number Theory Suggestions for Analytic Number Theory textbooks.I am not an expert but here are some suggestions from math stack exchange...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread I About the existence of Hamel basis for vector spaces.This reminds me of how puzzled I was, when writing my first algebra book, by this question: find a vector basis of the product of a...
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Mmathwonk replied to the thread How can we teach students the difference between sequences and series?.Perhaps the answer is contained in your first point. I.e. perhaps one should teach sequences first and thoroughly, and only treat...