LECTURE TIME AND PLACE: MWF 9:30, MEB 246
INSTRUCTOR: John Palmieri
Padelford C538, 253-1785
E-mail: palmieri@math.washington.edu
OFFICE HOURS: Monday and Wednesday, 10:30-11:30
(or just drop by--I'm around a lot)
WEB: http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/Math402/
TEXT: Algebra by M. Artin
EXAMINATIONS AND GRADING: There will be one mid-term exam, weekly problem sets, and a final exam. The mid-term exam is worth 100 points, the homework will count for 150 points, and the final is worth 150 points, for a total of 400 points.
HOUR EXAM: date to be announced
FINAL EXAM: 8:30-10:20 am, Tuesday, December 14.
HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned weekly. Feel free to work with other people on your homework, but you must write your solutions yourself. If you find a solution in a book, please provide a reference.
PLAN FOR THE COURSE: It would be nice if we reached the middle of the fourth chapter of the text by the end of the quarter. So, we will start with a brief review of matrices (Chapter 1) and related topics; then we will move on to groups (Chapter 2). We will spend a lot of time on groups, and then we will study vector spaces (Chapter 3). Some of the material in this chapter may be review, but the abstract approach will probably be new. The same goes for the material on linear transformations in Chapter 4.
PROBLEM SETS: I have provided a list of problems for each section of the text; on each Friday you will hand in the problems for the sections covered through the previous Monday's lecture. If we happen to have finished a chapter by that Monday, then you will also be responsible for the ``Miscellaneous'' problems. Note that there are a few extra-credit problems listed.
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Last modified: Wed Sep 22 11:35:38 PDT 1999