Instructor: |
Monty (or William)
McGovern
Office: Padelford C-450 Phone: 206-543-1149 Email: mcgovern@math.washington.edu Office Hours: TTh 1:30 and by appointment TA Office: Padelford C-20 |
Lectures: |
Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 9:30-10:20 a.m., Loew Hall 105 |
Required Text: |
An Introduction to Abstract Algebra with Notes to the Future Teacher by Nicodemi, Sutherland, and Towsley (Prentice Hall, 2007) |
Prerequisites: |
2.0 in Math 205, Math 308, Math 136 or the equivalent. |
Exams: |
1st Midterm: Friday, October 18, in
class. |
Grading: |
Your grade will be based on homework,two midterms, and a final exam (each counting 1/3). The final exam will be comprehensive. If you must miss an exam because of illness or emergency, I would very much appreciate advance notice. n all tests you may use two letter-sized pages (one sheet front and back of notes in your own handwriting). . |
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: |
This course is the first of a two-quarter sequence. In the first quarter we will try to get through sections 1.1-4,7, 2.1,4-6, and 3.1-7 of the text, covering eight chapters of the book, covering induction, primes and unique factorization, the Euclidean algorithm, Euler's and Fermat's Theorems, modular arithmetic, complex numbers, and polynomials. This course is the version of abstract algebra taken by students in the teacher preparation major and will be oriented to the needs of future teachers of mathematics. |
Due: | Problems: |
Sep 27 |
Chicken McNugget Problem, stated in class |
Oct 4 |
Exercises 1.2.1-4,10-11: read through section 1.3 |
Oct 11 |
Exercises 1.3.4,7,8; 1.4.2,5: read 1.4, start 1.7 (omit 1.5,6) |
Oct 18
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study problems, first midterm: ; read
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Oct 25 |
Exercises : read |
Nov 1 |
Exercises : read |
Nov 8 |
Exercises : read |
Nov 15
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study problems, second midterm: read
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Nov 29
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Exercises : read
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Dec 6
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study problems, final: |