7.9, Due April 1

I decided to write this blog about unicorns today instead of Abstract Algebra.. Enjoy!!!

APRIL FOOLS!!!

For reals though, here is the real blog information

Difficult: I felt that they new notation for the symmetric groups was really confusing and I feel like it isn't useful at all. What is the point of trying to write it this way, I have to think about it way more than I did when we just wrote it all out. So cycles are also confusing to me since I don't understand the notation. I got really confused about the notation because I felt like I understood some of it, but the notation on the middle of pg 231 didn't make any sense to me. So for the rest of the section, I was so confused because I couldn't make sense of cycles and the notation. So transpositions and alternating groups was really confusing to me.

Connections: The only connections I can really make with this section is that we have seen the symmetric groups before in other sections of chapter 7. I like them because they are good examples of non-abelian groups with different orders. However, they were kind of tedious to write them all out, so maybe once I can understand the new notation I will like them better and be able to understand how to have more applications of them.