The Beekman School's Mathematics of Symmetry Class
This course studies symmetry in both the world and in mathematics, and delves deeply into the mathematical topic of group theory from abstract algebra. This entire area of mathematics was developed by Evariste Galois, who then used this new field of mathematics to achieve subsequent mathematical breakthroughs. This one-semester elective investigates the mathematics of group theory, Galois’s further explorations in equation theory, and the intellectual journey that led up to these mathematical breakthroughs.