Groups, Rings, and Fields

Instructor: Vera Serganova
Email address: serganov@math
  • webpage:/~serganov
  • Phone Number: 642-2150
  • Office hours: M 12:30-1:30, Th 3:00-4:00 in 709 Evans

  • Text: Serge Lang, Algebra, revised third edition. We will cover most of material in Chapters I-VI of the text.
  • Homework: Each Friday a problem assignment (from the textbook)will be posted. The homework will be collected the next Friday. Late homework will not be accepted.
  • Exams: There will be one midterm on Friday, October 3. Final Exam is on Thursday, DECEMBER 18, 2014 3-6P
  • Review Session: Friday 12/12, 2-3PM, 740 Evans
  • Grading policy: Your grade will be computed according to the following rule: 30% for your homework, 20% for the midterm and 50% for the final.
  • Homework assignment

  • Due 9/12 Chapter 1 exercises: 3,5,6,10,12,15,16,21,23
  • Due 9/19 Chapter 1 exercises: 24,25,35,40,41,42,43
  • Due 9/26 Chapter 1 exercises: 44,49,50,52,54,55,56
  • Due 10/10 Chapter 2 exercises: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10
  • Due 10/17 Chapter 3 exercises: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10
  • Due 10/24 Assignment 6
  • Due 10/31 Chapter 3 exercise 21, Chapter 4 exercises: 1, 3, 5, 8, 9
  • Due 11/7 Chapter 5 exercises: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • Due 11/14 Chapter 5 exercises: 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 18
  • Due 11/21 Lang page 280: prove statements 2,3,4,5 about cyclotomic polynomials and do Chapter 6 exercise 1
  • Due 12/5 Chapter 6 exercises: 5, 9, 11, 13, 19, 23, 24, 31
  • Practice problems (for final)