Math 503, fall 2008

We meet Mondays 9.40–10.30, and Wednesdays 9.40–11.30. Our meeting room is M-215, but this may change.

There is no class on Monday, September 29 (or Wednesday, October 1).

There is no class on Monday, November 3 or Wednesday, November 5.

All exercises in Hungerford's Algebra (New York: Springer, 1980) are worth doing. I suggest the following in particular.

• I.1: 2, 3, 7, 11, 12, 13, 15
• I.2: 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 18
• I.3: 1, 2, 4, 5, 9, 10
• I.4: 2, 3, 6, 7, 11, 12 [where H ∨ K = ⟨H ∪ K⟩]
• I.5: 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, 19
• I.6: 1, 4, 7, 9
• I.7: 1, 6, 7
• I.8: 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 14
• I.9: 3 [where the set is {xⁿ: x∈F} for some fixed n], 4, 5, 7, 13
• II.1: 2, 5, 8, 11
• II.2: 9, 15
• II.4: 3–7, 13
• II.5: 3, 9–11
• II.6: 9
• II.7: 3, 4, 8, 9;
• II.8: 1, 5, 7, 13

I wrote some notes (3 pp.) on p-adic numbers and formal Laurent series.

Exams

1. Wednesday, November 12 (in class)
2. Wednesday, December 24 (in class)
3. (Final) January 21 (Wednesday)

Solutions

Course page from five years ago