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Thinking Algebraically: An Introduction to Abstract Algebra
No full textThinking Algebraically presents the insights of abstract algebra in a welcoming and accessible way. It succeeds in combining the advantages of rings\-first and groups\-first approaches while avoiding the disadvantages. After an historical overview, the first chapter studies familiar examples and elementary properties of groups and rings simultaneously to motivate the modern understanding of algebra. The text builds intuition for abstract algebra starting from high school algebra. In addition to the standard number systems, polynomials, vectors, and matrices, the first chapter introduces modular arithmetic and dihedral groups. The second chapter builds on these basic examples and properties, enabling students to learn structural ideas common to rings and groups: isomorphism, homomorphism, and direct product. The third chapter investigates introductory group theory. Later chapters delve more deeply into groups, rings, and fields, including Galois theory, and they also introduce other topics, such as lattices. The exposition is clear and conversational throughout.\n\nThe book has numerous exercises in each section as well as supplemental exercises and projects for each chapter. Many examples and well over 100 figures provide support for learning. Short biographies introduce the mathematicians who proved many of the results. The book presents a pathway to algebraic thinking in a semester\- or year\-long algebra course.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/math_books/1007/thumbnail.jp
Reflections on a Pandemic
Get PDFThis provides a personal ethical reflection on issues raised during the Covid-19 pandemic and racial justice movements and how these themes connect to the themes of hope, destruction, chaos, and resurrection as depicted in the Synoptic Gospels, particularly the Gospel of Mark
On Cannon Law
Get PDFA letter to a friend who wonders the relevance of Canon Law for everyday life and looking for guidance regarding a son who has fallen away from the Catholic faith. This letter touches five different aspects of prayer, a call to work in our own conversion and encouragement to accompany our efforts with penance. There are 20 canons from the Code of Canon Law cited in this document. This paper was originally written for a course on Introduction to Ecclesiastical Law
Review of Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton and the Greatest Commandment: Radical Love in Times of Crisis
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Collegeville Connections: Merton on My Mind
No full textWhat is the connection between contemplation and action? Is there ever such a thing as a wrong answer to a spiritual question? How do we care about the brutality in the world while not becoming overwhelmed by it?
In this Collegeville Connections event, Sophfronia Scott shares her deep dive into the private journals of the famous Trappist monk Thomas Merton, and the connection she found in his pages that led to her new book The Seeker and the Monk: Everyday Conversations with Thomas Merton. As a Black woman who is not Catholic, Scott both learns from and pushes back against Merton, holding spirited, and intimate conversations on race, ambition, faith, activism, nature, prayer, friendship, and love
A Conversation on Labor, Religion, Politics, and Public Engagement: A conversation between the AFL-CIO’s Damon Silvers and Jubilee USA Network’s Eric LeCompte
No full textOur elected officials and world leaders make decisions that impact our lives every day,” said Eric LeCompte. “If we want to influence those decisions, we need to engage with decision-makers. Religious groups and labor unions throughout history and to this day, influence Minnesota, national, and global policies that impact our lives. The joint work of labor unions and faith groups translates into policies that support workers, create jobs, and protect the environment. Damon and I are excited to have a conversation on how human rights and democracy is bolstered by our participation. We are excited to have this conversation at a place that has long understood the need for solidarity between workers and people of faith.
Damon Silvers is the AFL-CIO\u27s Senior Strategic Advisor and Special Counsel to the President. He joined the AFL-CIO as Associate General Counsel in 1997. Silvers is a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose at University College, London. He is also a member of The Century Foundation’s Board of Trustees and is a member of the Board of Directors of Americans for Financial Reform.
Eric LeCompte is the Executive Director of Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith coalition of more than 750 religious groups and organizations throughout the United States and around the world to win policies that alleviate poverty, address global conflict and promote human rights. His views on religion, politics and economic issues regularly appear in media outlets including the Associated Press News, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post
Minnesota Economic Association Annual Meeting 2021
No full textThe Hurwicz Distinguished Lecture at the Minnesota Economic Association annual meeting