Recent content by Tom86

I have a copy of Stewart and Tall and I found it definitely helped to read alongside my undergrad complex analysis course. Lots of people swear by Ahlfors though I prefer Cartan's treatment of the topic ("the Weierstrass point of view"), but I would recommend neither If you've done little in the...

Thanks for that. Looks like some good stuff there...I'm going to have a read through the Pari tutorial later. This has probably been posted before but those more algebraicly inclined may find this link useful: http://www.jmilne.org/math/index.html

Thanks for the link! I was actually going to post here asking for a good introductory text for getting into algebraic geometry. I've just started my postgrad to find out it's not being offered as a course this year. This is particularly annoying for me since one of the main reasons I chose to go...

serkan, from my experience (which is not much more than yours - I've only just done my BSc and am about to embark on a MSc) time and patience are your best friends when it comes to learning how to prove things. It wasn't until my third year courses in analysis and topology that I really began to...

You've got the right idea about group elements of finite order, though you say to compute the order of an element you examine the sequence g, g^2, g^3 etc. etc. until you return to the identity element. This is not wrong, however there is a result in group theory that will almost always be...