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)