Section outline

  • This week's lectures will cover the following fundamental definitions of group theory: groups; subgroups; the order of a group; the order of an element. We will also introduce Cayley tables, introduce the idea of a subgroup generated by a set of elements, and consider some simple examples of groups.

    This week's classes will correspond roughly to Sections 1.0 to 1.3 of the lecture notes.

    At the end of this week you will be able to use the Week 1 quiz. This quiz does not carry credit, and may be taken any number of times.