dcernst / IBL-AbstractAlgebra

IBL course materials for an undergraduate first-semester abstract algebra course that emphasizes visualization.
http://dcernst.github.io/IBL-AbstractAlgebra/
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Add problem about using generators to compute center #154

Open dcernst opened 2 years ago

dcernst commented 2 years ago

Add a problem that asks students to explain why it is enough to verify that $g\in G$ is in center of $G$ by determining whether $g$ commutes with generators of $G$.

Probably should have a question like the following too: If $xg=gx$, then $xg^{-1}=g^{-1}x$. This should come before the problem above.