Internet Tools for Modern Algebra
Dr. Brian Hopkins
Department of Mathematics
Saint Peter's College
Jersey City, New Jersey
A hands-on, discovery approach to modern algebra is hampered by the
work of computing the multiplication table for groups. Groups32,
maintained by John Wavrik at UCSD, is a freely accessible program
that includes these tables for all groups up to order 32, and much
more information. The talk will include a brief summary of what the
program can do, but will focus on how it was used in a spring 2003
course. Other internet tools will be mentioned, including applets
for visualizing symmetries.