MATH 4121
ABSTRACT ALGEBRA 2
Syllabus
Spring, 2016

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

Office hours: Tues 2-3PM and Wed/Fri 10-11AM. Please feel free to set up an appointment with me if these times are inconvenient.

Website: www.mscs.mu.edu/~mikes/math4121/

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

Grading:

  • 15% in-class exam on Wed, Mar 9
  • 15% 2 hour final exam on Wed, May 11 at 10:30AM
  • 70% Homework & Quizzes

    Approximate order of main topics:

  • Polynomials
  • Ideals and Quotient Rings
  • Finite Fields
  • Sylow's theorems
  • Finite Abelian Groups
  • Factoring polynomials mod p
  • Field Theory
  • Geometric constructions
  • Galois theory
  • Insolubility of quintic
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