Math 480, Spring 2014

Course information

• See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
• Class meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 3:00 p.m. -- 3:50 p.m., in W-1-45.
• Textbook: Cox, Little, and O'Shea, Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms, Third Edition.
• Instructor: Steven Jackson.
• Office: S-3-82
• Office hours: by appointment.
• E-mail: jackson@math.umb.edu.
• Telephone: (617) 287-6469.

Important dates

• Weekly quizzes happen on Mondays during the last ten minutes of class. (In weeks when Monday is a holiday, the quiz will happen on Wednesday.) The first quiz is Monday, February 3.
• First midterm: Monday, March 10.
• Second midterm: Wednesday, April 16.
• Final exam: TBA.

How to use this page

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

• Assignment 1, due Monday, February 3.
• Assignment 2, due Monday, February 10.
• Assignment 3, due Wednesday, February 19.
• Assignment 4, due Monday, February 24.
• Assignment 5, due Monday, March 3. (Note: we will have the quiz on Friday, March 7.)
• Assignment 6, due Monday, March 10.
• Assignment 7, due Monday, March 24. (Note: we will have the quiz on Wednesday, March 26.)
• Assignment 8, due Monday, March 31. (Note: we will have the quiz on Friday, April 4.)
• Assignment 9, due Monday, April 7.
• Assignment 10, due Monday, April 14.
• Assignment 11, due Wednesday, April 23.
• Assignment 12, due Monday, April 28.
• Assignment 13, due Monday, May 5.
• Assignment 14, due Monday, May 12.
• Assignment 15, due Wednesday, May 14.