Thursday, December 3, 2009

Section 8.4

Difficult: The most difficult parts of this section for me were the proofs of the three Sylow theorems. It was extremely hard for me to follow. It might be because I just don't understand conjugacy very well, or because I didn't understand the rest of the section. I would greatly benefit by going over the proofs in class slowly so we can understand.

Reflective: The concept of conjugacy is interesting. Does it have anything to do with the conjugates of complex numbers? Why does the form x^-1Kx matter? It is interesting to discover these new terms and see how they can apply.

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