Instructor: |
Monty (or William)
McGovern
Office: Padelford C-450 Phone: 206-543-1149 Email: mcgovern@math.washington.edu Office Hours: W 10:30, Th 1:30 or by appointment, Padelford C-450; grader's hours T 10:30, office PDL C-113, email mjkorson@math.washington.edu |
Lectures: |
Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 9:30-10:20 a.m., Thomson Hall 135 |
Required Text: |
Algebra, by Michael Artin, (Prentice Hall, 1991). |
Prerequisites: |
Math 403 or the equivalent. |
Exams: |
1st Midterm: Friday, May 2, in
class. |
Grading: |
Your grade will be based on weekly homework, two midterms, and a final exam, each of these accounting for 1/3 of the final grade. The final exam will be comprehensive. If you must miss an exam because of illness or emergency, I would very much appreciate advance notice. If you cannot complete a homework assignment on time, you can always turn it in by 4:00 on the day it is due to the grader's (Matt Korson's) mailbox. PLEASE turn in WHATEVER YOU CAN rather than nothing. In all tests you may use two letter-sized pages (one sheet front and back of notes in your own handwriting). class. |
Incompletes and Drops: |
The grade of Incomplete will be given ONLY if a student has been doing satisfactory work until the end of the quarter and then misses the final exam for a documented illness, religious reason, or family emergency. |
What to Expect: |
I will be finishing up Galois theory (Chapter 14) this quarter and then moving on to module theory over PIDs (Chapter 12) with applications to linear algebra (and a surprising application to Galois theory). Later, as time permits, I may do some representation theory of finite groups (Chapter 9). I will broadly follow the text and try to indicate at all times where and how it treats the material I am discussing, but I will feel free to omit certain topics, cover others in greater depth, and discuss still others that are not in the text at all. |
Due: | Problems: | ||||
Apr 11 |
14.5.9,10 [\alpha is a root of f],12; 14.Misc.3,4: read 14.7-14.9 |
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Apr 18 |
12.1.1,5,6b; 12.2.1,4: read 12.1,12.2 |
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Apr 25 |
12.2.2; 12.4.3,4; 12.6.1,4: read 12.4-12.6 |
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study problems, first midterm (May 2)
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12.6.2; 12.7.2,4-6: review Chapter 12 through 12.7 |
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May 9 |
12.8.1; 9.1.1,4,8,9: read 12.8,9.1,2 |
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May 16 |
9.2.4,6; 9.4.2,4; 9.5.3: read 9.4,5 |
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study problems, second midterm (May 23)
9.5.9-12,17ad: read 9.7,9 |
May 30
9.5.12,13; 9.Misc.1,8,9: finish Chapter 9 |
study problems, final
14.9.9; 12.7.17; 12.1.6; 9.8.1; 9.4.6 |
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