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Comment by dxuh

2 days ago

> “There may be structures without any symmetry at all,” said Gabriele Nebe (opens a new tab) of RWTH Aachen University in Germany. “And no good way to find them.”

She taught Lineare Algebra II when I took it! It was one of the toughest lectures I took during university. I remember looking to the person next to me and one of us asked "do you understand anything?" and the other said "no! I haven't understood anything for like 20 minutes" and we burst out laughing and couldn't get it together until we were asked to quiet down. Wadim if you hang out here, send me a mail or something!