Abstract Algebra
MA312 Fall 2020: Northern Michigan University

List of potential projects

  • Crystallographic Groups / Tilings of the Plane
  • Geometric Constructions w/ruler & compasss
  • History of Algebra and the people behind it
  • Cayley Graphs
  • Symmetry groups of the Platonic Solids
  • Rubik's Cube (2x2 or 3x3 depending on how ambitious you are feeling
  • Burnside's Lemma (also called Burnside's counting theorem
  • SL(2,R) and Mobius Transformations
  • Algebraic Coding Theory
  • Quotient Space
  • Group Actions (Class Equation
  • Relationship between cycle type and conjugacy classes in symmetric group
  • Sylow Groups
  • Anything that interests you