Dear Forum, thank you very much for all your feedback about "GAP in teaching". I have now prepared a little overview over the results. If you are interested in more details or want me to establish contact to somebody in the mentioned institutions, just send me an email.
Best wishes, Max. ========= SUMMARY ========= I got feedback from about 25 individuals. GAP is used for teaching in at least the following institutions (in no particular order): University of Porto, Portugal Universidade Aberta, Portugal RWTH Aachen, Germany ZetaTrek expedition University of Braunschweig, Germany Colorado State University Ghent University, Department of Mathematics, Belgium United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, USA Auburn University Montgomery, USA University of Trento, Trento, Italy Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (www.ntu.edu.sg) Universidade de Brasilia, Brasil Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, USA Benedictine University, Lisle, USA University of Vlora, Albania University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia University of Western Sydney, Australia Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK The topics of the courses/teaching that were mentioned (many repeatedly) were: Algebra Group Theory Representation Theory Number Theory Cryptography Computer Algebra RSA cryptosystem Semigroup Theory Coding Theory Information Security Computational Group Theory Computational Representation Theory Experimental Mathematics Groups and Symmetry The levels of courses/teaching that were mentioned were: 2nd-3rd year Master Bachelor Graduate Education Majors Maths Majors Honours students PhD students The following specific GAP packages have been mentioned in the feedback: factint automata data collections It was pointed out that GAP was used in various workshops happening all over the world. The following publicly available resources with respect to teaching material were mentioned: * http://www.gap-system.org/Doc/Teaching/teaching.html * http://www.math.colostate.edu/~hulpke/CGT/education.html * http://cage.ugent.be/~jdebeule/teaching.html * "Contemporary Abstract Algebra" by Joseph A. Gallian has GAP exercises * "Sage for Abstract Algebra", A Supplement to Abstract Algebra, Theory and Applications by Robert A. Beezer Department of Mathematics and Computer Science University of Puget Sound http://abstract.ups.edu/sage-aata.html * Applied Abstract Algebra, by David Joyner, Richard Kreminski, Joann Turisco GAP is of course used in Sage, so the following collection of uses of Sage in teaching is relevant as well: http://wiki.sagemath.org/Teaching_with_SAGE The following translations of tutorials or material to other languages were mentioned: * GAP tutorial in Spanish, by Ramon Esteban Romero * "Algebra and number theory with GAP" in Russian by Alexander Konovalov -- Max Neunhoeffer http://www-groups.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~neunhoef/ > > > > > > > > > > > May the Source be with you! < < < < < < < < < < < < The University of St Andrews is a registered Scottish charity: No SC013532 _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum
