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