Welcome to the Group Explorer home page!
NEW! - Group Explorer article in JOMA!
An article about Group Explorer is now available in the online journal JOMA.
Read the article here. |
NEW! - Group Explorer 2.0 has been released!
You can get your (beta) copy here:
The Group Explorer 2.0 homepage
NOTE: The website you are on right now is for the old version.
(No releases or bug fixes on this version are planned.
This website is still around as a service to those who have not yet upgraded.) |
The Downloads Page has
the last release of the Windows version (1.5.8) available for download. (Newer versions are in the 2.0-series, at the link above.)
What is Group Explorer?
Group Explorer is software that lets the user explore and
manipulate groups first-hand. Its primary uses are
 | to provide visualization tools in a subject that lacks them, |
| to build and enrich intuition for students of group theory, |
| and to accelerate investigation and experimentation with groups. |
Users load groups from an extensive library,
then instruct Group Explorer to display and manipulate Cayley diagrams, objects of symmetry,
multiplication tables, and more. Pointing and clicking navigates
through the
group using its generators, which Group Explorer displays as 3D animated
manipulations of Cayley diagrams and symmetry objects. Group Explorer can also highlight
properties of a group (e.g., cosets, conjugacy classes), giving the user
immediate access
to deeper investigation of any on-screen group.
Interested? Read more!
Group Explorer is designed to be a pedagogical tool especially useful for
first-time abstract algebra students and courses.
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