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- | + | //geometry asks, “Given a geometric object X, what is its group of | |
- | <note tip> | + | symmetries?” Representation theory reverses the question to “Given a group G, what objects X |
- | Explanations in this section should contain no formulas, but instead colloquial things like you would hear them during a coffee break or at a cocktail party. | + | does it act on?” and attempts to answer this question by classifying such X up to isomorphism.//" [[https://math.berkeley.edu/~teleman/math/RepThry.pdf|Source]] |
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