Math 361, Spring 2018

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Course information[edit]

  • See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
  • Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., in M-1-617.
  • Textbook: John Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Seventh Edition.
  • Instructor: Steven Jackson.
  • Office: S-3-82
  • Office hours: by appointment.
  • E-mail: jackson@math.umb.edu.
  • Telephone: (617) 287-6469.

Important dates[edit]

  • Weekly quizzes happen on Tuesdays during the last fifteen minutes of class. The first quiz is on Tuesday, January 30.
  • First midterm: Tuesday, February 27.
  • Second midterm: Tuesday, April 10.
  • Final exam: Tuesday, May 15, 11:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m., in M-1-617.

How to use this page[edit]

Below you will find links to the weekly assignment pages. Each of these pages is editable by anyone in the class, so apart from telling you what problems to work on they are excellent spaces in which to ask questions. (If you are very shy you may ask your questions privately, either by email or in person. But we will all work more efficiently if you ask them on the wiki, so that each question only needs to be answered once.) It is also extremely helpful to try to answer questions posed by other students. I will monitor these pages to ensure that no wrong answers go uncorrected.

If you are not already familiar with them, you may wish to read about wiki markup and typesetting mathematics. Also, you may wish to add this page and the assignment pages to your watchlist using the link in the upper right corner of each page, then change your preferences to enable e-mail notifications; this way you will know about page activity without constantly re-checking all the pages.

Weekly assignments[edit]

Notes[edit]

Hi all,

Just like last semester, I will be posting my class notes into a google drive folder. The folder can be accessed here: [1]

The app that I use to upload the notes had an update, so the format will be slightly different. Instead of each page of notes being a separate file, I will be able to upload each day's notes as a single multi-page file.

Additionally, if you want to reference the notes from last semester, you can visit all of those notes here: [2]

See you in class!

-Bryan