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Clocks, parking garages, and the solvability of the quintic: a friendly introduction to monodromy (Edray Goins, Pomona College)
Clocks, parking garages, and the solvability of the quintic: a friendly introduction to monodromy (Edray Goins, Pomona College)
Imagine the hands on a clock. Â For every complete the minute hand makes, the seconds hand makes 60, while the hour hand only goes one twelfth of the way. Â We may think of the hour hand as generating a group such that when we ``move'' twelve times then we get back to where we […]