[PLUG-TALK] cohomology

spike spooner spike at pcez.com
Fri Jun 9 19:53:26 UTC 2006


Jeme A Brelin wrote:

>
> The rest of this is a long explanation of my home audio needs. I'll be 
> shocked if anyone reads it, but I'm desperate to avoid writing a paper 
> on group cohomology.


I have two questions:

(1) Is your group cohomology paper supposed to be about the cohomology of
groups of dolphins for a biology class, or about the cohomology of a
political focus group for a sociology or political science class? Or other.

(2) What are the rules or ethical considerations about sharing or making
public such a paper? I imagine there must, at least, be a time limit.
Otherwise, someone with access to your paper could run it through a filter
that changes "that" to "which" (or which changes "which" to "that"), and
which changes "dolphin" to "porpoise", and end up with a paper that could be
turned in to the same class.
Some professors seem to be obsessed with production of original work as
opposed to learning the material of the course. What better way could one
learn the (biology or sociology) material than by writing a filter?

spike




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