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| | The following hints atwhy the quintic equation cannot be solved using radicals. It follows the approach in the first part of Ian Stewart's book "Galois Theory". If time permits, a future post will summarise the approach in V. B. Alekseev's book "Abel's Theorem in Problems and Solutions". Another candidate is Klein's book "Lectures on the...
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| | As an undergraduate the proofs I saw of the Sylow theorems seemed very complicated and I was totally unable to remember them. The goal of this post is to explain proofs of the Sylow theorems which I am actually able to remember, several of which use our old friend The $latex p$-group fixed point theorem...
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| Exercise 1.Solve Exercise 44 in Chapter 1 of the book. Exercise 2.Solve Exercise 3 in Chapter 1 of the book. Exercise 3.Solve Exercise 39 in Chapter 1 of the book. Exercise 4.The heat kernel on $latex \mathbb{S}^1$ is given by $latex p(t,y) =\frac{1}{2\pi}\sum_{m \in \mathbb{Z}} e^{-m^2 t} e^{im y} =\frac{1}{\sqrt{4\pi t}} \sum_{k \in \mathbb{Z}} e^{-\frac{(y...