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
• • III.1: 1, 3, 7, 9, 10(e), 11, 17
  • III.2: 1, 2, 5, 6, 11, 15, 18, 21, 23
  • III.3: 2, 5, 10, 11
  • III.4: 4, 5, 6, 13, 15
  • III.5: 8, 9, 11
  • III.6: 1, 10, 11, 15

Notes

• on p-adic numbers and formal Laurent series (3 pp.)
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• on the course:
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Exams

1. Wednesday, November 12 (in class)
2. Wednesday, December 24 (in class)
3. (Final) January 21 (Wednesday), 11.15, in M-214

Solutions

Course page from five years ago