Math 360, Fall 2018

Course information

• See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
• Class meets Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 1:00 p.m.-1:50 p.m., in W-1-61.
• 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

• Weekly quizzes happen on Wednesdays during the last ten minutes of class. The first quiz is on Monday, September 10.
• First midterm: Monday, October 15.
• Second midterm: Monday, November 19.
• Final exam: To be announced.

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 Wednesday, September 12.
• Assignment 2, due Wednesday, September 19.
• Assignment 3, due Wednesday, September 26.
• Assignment 4, due Wednesday, October 3.
• Assignment 5, due Wednesday, October 10.
• Assignment 6, due Wednesday, October 17.
• Assignment 7, due Wednesday, October 24.
• Assignment 8, due Wednesday, October 31.
• Assignment 9, due Wednesday, November 7.
• Assignment 10, due Wednesday, November 14.
• Assignment 11, due Wednesday, November 21.
• Assignment 12, due Wednesday, November 28.
• Assignment 13, due Wednesday, December 5.
• Assignment 14, due Wednesday, December 12.
• Assignment 15, due before final exam.