The Question : 105 people think this question is useful Edit: I’ve drawn up some different rules, a map and some cards for playing an actual version of the game. They’re available at my personal website with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. This is a math education question that I’ve been thinking of when
The Question : 110 people think this question is useful Lately I have been thinking about commutator formulas, sparked by rereading the following paragraph in Isaacs (p.125): An amazing commutator formula is the Hall-Witt identity: $$[x,y^{-1},z]^y[y,z^{-1},x]^z[z,x^{-1},y]^x=1,$$ which holds for any three elements of every group. $\ldots$ One can think of the Hall-Witt formula as a
The Question : 141 people think this question is useful I am studying homology groups and I am looking to try and develop, if possible, a little more intuition about what they actually mean. I’ve only been studying homology for a short while, so if possible I would prefer it if this could be kept
The Question : 151 people think this question is useful Imagine that you’re a flatlander walking in your world. How could you be able to distinguish between your world being a sphere versus a torus? I can’t see the difference from this point of view. If you are interested, this question arose while I was
The Question : 161 people think this question is useful It is well-known that the generators of the zeroth singular homology group $H_0(X)$ of a space $X$ correspond to the path components of $X$. I have recently learned that for Čech homology the corresponding statement would be that $\check{H}_0(X)$ is generated by the quasicomponents of
The Question : 577 people think this question is useful My nephew was folding laundry, and turning the occasional shirt right-side-out. I showed him a “trick” where I turned it right-side-out by pulling the whole thing through a sleeve instead of the bottom or collar of the shirt. He thought it was really cool (kids
The Question : 54 people think this question is useful I’ve been studying math as a hobby, just for fun for years, and I had my goal to understand nearly every good undergraduate textbook and I think, I finally reached it. So now I need an another goal. I’ve just found a very nice book
