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Revisions for Proving results by letting a group act on a finite set

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19/04/2009 - 15:42 by gowers
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19/04/2009 - 14:13 by gowers

Reordered account of second example to try to explain the motivation for the choice of action in advance rather than with hindsight.

19/04/2009 - 13:55 by gowers

Minor rewording.

19/04/2009 - 13:44 by emerton

I modified the quick description, just to point out that the group that acts is not always the group itself. (So as to accomodate the proof of Cauhcy's theorem.)

19/04/2009 - 13:42 by emerton

I added an example giving a simple proof of Cauchy's theorem, and consequently removed the inline comment about the proof of this theorem.

19/04/2009 - 13:40 by emerton
19/04/2009 - 09:09 by Jungle

Added a missing word "divide" in Example 2.

19/04/2009 - 08:46 by Jungle

Prettified some links. Removed the request for an example about groups of order pq, since it's now there!

19/04/2009 - 02:33 by wilton

Prettified some links. Removed the request for an example about groups of order pq, since it's now there!

19/04/2009 - 00:49 by Colin Reid

Included another example - I think this is the example being referred to in the 'incomplete' note.

19/04/2009 - 00:14 by gowers
18/04/2009 - 23:32 by gowers
18/04/2009 - 23:17 by gowers
18/04/2009 - 23:17 by gowers