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Galois groups and the symmetries of polynomials

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POSTED BY: Paul Abbott
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Very useful for error correction code as well.

POSTED BY: Shenghui Yang

Fascinating!

This is an application of group theory that chemists like me are rarely exposed to. We can take a molecule and its 3D geometry and work out which point group symmetry it possesses, or its chemical graph and the corresponding permutation-inversion group.

This post give me some ideas for other ways to explain symmetry in chemistry.

POSTED BY: Robert Nachbar
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