Abstract Algebra

Math 416 - Fall 2007

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5 - permutations

Chapter 6 - homomorphisms and isomorpthisms

Chapter 7 - cosets and Lagrange

 

Chapters 6 and 7 practice questions here

 

 

Semester Calendar

 

Week

M

T

W

Th

 

 

September

1

 

9/4 - Introduction

compare properties of addition and multiplication (29)

9/5

9/6 - Chapter 1, Introduction to groups, Groups of symmetries, Cayley tables, abelian, dihedral groups, cyclic groups. 

2

 

9/11 - Chapter 2, Groups

important examples, elementary properties

Online quiz on Chapter 0 postponed

(27)

 

9/13 - HW#1 due: Ch 1, p. 37 # 2, 3, 12, 13, 16, 20, 22

Modular algebra worksheet available here, with answers here.

3

 

9/18 - HW #2 due: Ch 2, p. 53 # 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 16, 22, 25, 26

(25)

 

9/20 - homework postponed

4

 

9/25 - 

 

9/27 - modular arithmetic worksheet

 

 

October

5

 

10/2 -HW #3 due: Ch 3, p. 67 # 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 14, 21, 22, 28 (see p.47 example 17 and p. 45 example 9)(23)

 

10/4 -  HW 4a due:  Ch 4 (p. 82) # 1, 3, 5, 8, 11(21)

6

 

10/9 - Test - chapters 1 to 3 (19)

10/10 10/11 - return test

7

 

10/16 - HW 4b due: Ch 4 (p.82) # 13, 14, 16, 17,23, 24, 45  (17)

 

10/18 - Start chapter 5 - permutation groups

8

 

10/23 - midterm grades are in (15)

 

10/25 - notation, order, cycles

 

 

November

9

 

10/30 - Test - Chapter 4

(13)

 

11/1 - HW 5a: Ch 5 p. 112 # 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10

10

 

11/6 - (11)

11/7

11/8 - HW 5b: Ch 5 p. 112 # 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21

11

 

11/13 -(9) - begin Chapter 6

 

11/15 - test - chapter 5 permuations

12

 

11/20 - HW 6a: p. 132 # 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 24, 32  (7)

 

11/22 - Thanksgiving - no class

13

 

11/27 - (6) - start chapter 7

 

11/29 - continue chapter 7

 

 

December

14

 

12/4 - (4) 

 

12/6 - HW 7a: p. 148 # 1, 2, 5, 13, 14, 17, 27, 31, 42

15

12/11 - (2) - test chapters 6 and 7

Practice questions here

12/12

12/13 - Review for final

Friday is our only reading day this semester

Exams

week

Final exam

Thursday, December 20 - exam period 3

2:00 to 4:30 pm

 

 

 

  Clinic Opens !!

MATH CLINIC HOURS FOR FALL 2007

 Monday                9:30 am – 9 pm

Tuesday               9 am – 8:30 pm 

Wednesday         9 am – 8:30 pm

Thursday             9 am – 8 pm 

Friday                  9 am – 3 pm

Saturday              9 am – 12 pm

 

Be there!  Take a friend!

 

calendar updated December 10, 2007

 

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Review questions for the Chapter 5 test are posted here.

 

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Book list: Contemporary Abstract Algebra, 6th edition, by Joseph A. Gallian, available at the University Bookstore

 

Syllabus is finished

 

Class meets 9:30 to 10:45 Tuesday and Thursday in Higgins 117

 

Online Quiz on Chapter 0 is due on September 11.

 

 

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

 - Jonas Salk