The Alternating Group
Channel: Andrew Misseldine
Date: 2020-10-09

In this video, we introduce the alternating group as a subgroup of the symmetric group and compute its order.

This is lecture 16 (part 3/3) of the lecture series offered by Dr. Andrew Misseldine for the course Math 4220 - Abstract Algebra I at Southern Utah University. A transcript of this lecture can be found at Dr. Misseldine's website or through his Google Drive at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fAovpHBWg4SJyOkKD1uvB1Pvy-oDLkrn/view

This lecture is based upon Sections 5.1 of Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications (http://abstract.ups.edu/) by Tom Judson. Please post any questions you might have below in the comment field and Dr. Misseldine (or other commenters) can answer them for you. Please also subscribe for further updates.