The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the ...

In this course we will consider the structure of (infinite) groups. For this, we will study actions of groups on interesting topological and metric spaces. The geometry of these spaces can be used to ...

Group theory is a formal method for analysing, in terms of symmetry groups, abstract and physical systems in which symmetry is present. For example, group theory classifies regular polyhedra, crystal ...

In 2003, a German graduate student named Britta Späth encountered the McKay conjecture, one of the biggest open problems in the mathematical realm known as group theory. At first her goals were ...