MATH 4120
ABSTRACT ALGEBRA 1
Syllabus
Fall, 2017

Instructor: Dr. Michael Slattery
Office: CU 309
Phone: 288-6595
Email: mikes (a) mscs.mu.edu

Office hours: Mon 3-4PM, Tues 3-4PM, Wed 11AM-12 and Fri 11AM-12. Please feel free to set up an appointment with me if these times are inconvenient.

Website: www.mscs.mu.edu/~mikes/math4120/

Textbook: A First Course in Abstract Algebra by John B. Fraleigh (7th Ed)

Attendance: Expected.

Grading:

  • 15% in-class exam on Fri, Sep 29
  • 15% in-class exam on Fri, Nov 3
  • 20% 2 hour final exam on Thurs, Dec 14 at 10:30AM
  • 50% Homework & Class Activities

    Approximate order of topics:

  • Introduction and Examples
  • Binary Operations (section 2)
  • Isomorphic Binary Structures (section 3)
  • Groups (section 4)
  • Subgroups (section 5)
  • Cyclic Groups (section 6)
  • --Exam 1--
  • Permutations (section 8)
  • Alternating Groups (section 9)
  • Cosets (section 10)
  • Direct Products
  • Homomorphisms (section 13)
  • Factor Groups (section 14)
  • --Exam 2--
  • Rings and Fields (section 18)
  • Integral Domains (section 19)
  • A Bit of Number Theory (section 20)
  • Polynomials (section 22)
  • Factorization of Polynomials
  • Homomorphisms and Factor Rings (section 26)
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