Pascal's Triangle and Its Relatives

Background

A Quick Sketch of Some Group Theory

We begin with the definition of a group.
The order is the number of elements in a group.
Subgroups are smaller groups inside a group.
Two groups that are isomorphismic are indistinguishable as groups.
The last group theory concepts we need are cosets and quotient groups, which we introduce through examples in Z6.
Cosets are copies of a subgroup that fill up a group.
To see a nontrivial example of normal subgroups, we need a non-commutative group.
Finally, examples of normal subgroups and quotient groups.

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