Re: Question for the Professor

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:37:25 -0800, "Jason Pawloski"
<a6794a4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


In general, a plumber is more valuable to society than a
group-theoretician. We have to stop overvaluing academic pursuits over
vocational jobs. (I got 100% in my group theory class.)

You actually had a class only on group theory without rings and fields?
Was it an elective course or was it a part of a math curriculum?

I've seen many, many math curricula and never once seen a class only on
groups.

He didn't say he didn't study rings and fields. The group theory
classes I've taken included rings and fields (of course), but the name
of the class was "Group Theory".

GEJ
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