Abstract Algebra
Math 416 - Fall 2007
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Chapters 6 and 7 practice questions here
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Semester Calendar
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9/4 - Introduction compare properties of addition and multiplication (29) |
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9/6 - Chapter 1, Introduction to groups, Groups of symmetries, Cayley tables, abelian, dihedral groups, cyclic groups. |
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9/11 - Chapter 2, Groups important examples, elementary properties Online quiz on Chapter 0 postponed (27) |
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9/13 - HW#1 due: Ch 1, p. 37 # 2, 3, 12, 13, 16, 20, 22 Modular algebra worksheet available here, with answers here. |
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9/18 - HW #2 due: Ch 2, p. 53 # 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 13, 16, 22, 25, 26 (25) |
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9/20 - homework postponed |
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9/27 - modular arithmetic worksheet |
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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) |
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10/4 - HW 4a due: Ch 4 (p. 82) # 1, 3, 5, 8, 11(21) |
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10/9 - Test - chapters 1 to 3 (19) |
10/10 | 10/11 - return test | |
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10/16 - HW 4b due: Ch 4 (p.82) # 13, 14, 16, 17,23, 24, 45 (17) |
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10/18 - Start chapter 5 - permutation groups |
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10/23 - midterm grades are in (15) |
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10/25 - notation, order, cycles |
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November |
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10/30 - Test - Chapter 4 (13) |
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11/1 - HW 5a: Ch 5 p. 112 # 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 |
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11/6 - (11) |
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11/8 - HW 5b: Ch 5 p. 112 # 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21 |
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11/13 -(9) - begin Chapter 6 |
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11/15 - test - chapter 5 permuations |
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11/20 - HW 6a: p. 132 # 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 24, 32 (7) |
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11/22 - Thanksgiving - no class |
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11/27 - (6) - start chapter 7 |
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11/29 - continue chapter 7 |
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12/4 - (4) |
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12/6 - HW 7a: p. 148 # 1, 2, 5, 13, 14, 17, 27, 31, 42 |
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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 |
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Exams week |
Thursday, December 20 - exam period 3 2:00 to 4:30 pm |
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Clinic
Opens
!!MATH CLINIC HOURS FOR FALL 2007Monday 9:30 am – 9 pmTuesday 9 am – 8:30 pmWednesday 9 am – 8:30 pmThursday 9 am – 8 pmFriday 9 am – 3 pmSaturday 9 am – 12 pm
Be there! Take a friend! |
calendar updated December 10, 2007
What we've done so far:
Review questions for the Chapter 5 test are posted here.
Snow days during exams?
Follow instructions
Read This Page
This page tells you what to do and when it is due. You are responsible for anything on this page.
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