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Re: Only 45% of the students were prepared for math
Posted:
Mar 28, 2006 1:14 PM
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In article <280320061310109328%anniel@nym.alias.net.invalid>, A N Niel writes:
>In article <200603281743.k2SHhi9129832@walkabout.empros.com>, Michael Stemper <mstemper@siemens-emis.com> wrote:
>> After puzzling it over for a few weeks (my Usenet access was gone at
>> the time), I finally set aside the topology book and bought a book
>> on algebra, instead.
>
>So I hope that algebra book did not start out: A group is a set with a
>binary operation satisfying these axioms...
<g> No, it started out with a few examples of groups and abstracted the
properties from them. *Then* it gave the formal definition.
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Michael F. Stemper
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