Groups and Problems

Miklos Abert

2006 REU


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If you feel that you need to understand infinity a bit better, read this.


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Lecture 1: Unique factorization 

Lecture 2: Gaussian integers

Lecture 3: Mod

Lecture 4: The Burnside Problem

Lecture 5: Free groups and automorphism groups of graphs

Lecture 6: Free groups are residually p

Lecture 7: Finitely generated linear groups are virtually torsion free

Lecture 8: Grigorchuk's group

Lecture 9: Word growth