Mathematics 504

<body bgcolor="FFFFFF" text="111111"> <a href="./"><img src="title.png" alt="Math 504, Autumn 2003" border=0></a> <h4>Announcements:</h4> <ul> <li> <a href="final-sol.pdf">Final exam solutions</a> (PDF file) <li> <a href="final-comments.pdf">Comments on your final exam solutions</a> (PDF file) <li> The average on the final was 51 out of 70; the median was 49. The scores ranged from 27 to 66. When computing your grade for the course, I "curved" the final score (so that the curved average on the final would be roughly the same as the average on the homework). The formula for the curve is: if your score was <em>N</em> out of 70, then the curved score is sqrt(70<em>N</em>) out of 70 (or multiply by 100/70 to get a percentage). </ul> <h4>Homework:</h4> <ul> <li> Practice problems on Chapter 5: <ul> <li> Section 5.1: 4, 18 <li> Section 5.2: 1, 4, 7, 14 <li> Section 5.5: 1, 2, 5, 22 (and problems 11-13 look interesting) </ul> <li> <a href="homework.html" target="_parent">Old homework</a> </ul> <h4>Reading assignments:</h4> <ul> <li> <a href="reading.html" target="_parent">Old reading assignments</a> </ul> <h4>Course material, links:</h4> <ul>      <li> <a href="syllabus.html" target="_blank">course syllabus</a> <li> Here are <a href="midterm-comments.pdf" target="_blank">my comments on the midterm (PDF file)</a>. <li> Links for solving quintics by means other than by radicals: <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/QuinticEquation.html" target="_blank">link 1</a>, <a href="http://www.wolfram.com/posters/quintic/" target="_blank">link 2</a>. <li> If you want to see some examples of infinite Galois extensions, see the most recent edition of Lang's <em>Algebra</em>, exercises 43-45 in Chapter VI, and also Jacobson's <em>Basic Algebra II</em>, Section 8.6. Both are on reserve in the math library. </ul> <br> <br> <hr> <h5>       John Palmieri    Padelford C-538    (206) 543-1785    <a href="mailto:palmieri@math.washington.edu">email</a>    <a HREF="../../../" target="_parent">web page</a></h5> </body>