Up to equivalence, there aren’t nine distinct opening moves. There are only three. If it isn’t immediately clear to you what “up to equivalence” means here, I urge you to try and figure it out ...
In the early 1960s George Gamow wrote a popular book 1 that contained a very suggestive observation about the effectiveness of pure mathematics in physics. As a conclusion he remarked that “only ...
The Math 8806-8807 sequence will cover the following topics: Group Theory (Group actions, Sylow, Nilpotent/Solvable, simple groups, Jordan-Holder series, presentations); commutative algebra ...