Original upload date: Sat, 06 Aug 2022 02:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:10:09 GMT
This is the most information-dense introduction to group theory you'll see on this website. If you're a computer scientist like me and have always wondered what group theory is useful for and why it e
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ven exists and furthermore don't want to bother spending hours learning the basics, this is the video for you. We cover everything from the basic history of group theory, over how and why subgroups partition groups, to the classification of all groups of prime order.
Babai's talk can be found at: http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~laci/2015-11-10talk.mp4
0:00 Intro
1:42 Abstract Algebra
4:28 Group Theory
8:01 Z Q Zn Dn
14:29 Proofs
18:58 Subgroups & Cosets
25:31 The Theorem
29:11 Classification of Groups of Prime Order
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