Wednesday, 12 February 2003, at 2:00 PM in Lowell Thomas 207 

Speaker:

Mark Rhodes - Colgate University

Title:

What Is a Ring?

Abstract:

The notion of an algebraic structure called a "ring" will be presented, first by focusing on what a ring is not, and then through illuminating examples. Some methods for constructing new rings out of old ones will be given. I will also expound a bit on why anyone would want to study these objects. This talk will be readily accessible to any intermediate level undergraduate mathematics student. 


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