Math 380, Spring 2018
Course information
- See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
- Class meets Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m., in M-1-207.
- Textbook: David Cox, John Little, and Donal O'Shea, Ideals, Varieties, and Algorithms, fourth 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 Tuesdays during the last fifteen minutes of class. The first quiz is on Tuesday, January 30.
- First midterm: Thursday, March 1.
- Second midterm: Thursday, April 12.
- Final exam: Tuesday, May 15, 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m., in M-1-207.
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 Tuesday, January 30.
- Assignment 2, due Tuesday, February 6.
- Assignment 3, due Tuesday, February 13.
- Assignment 4, due Tuesday, February 20.
- Assignment 5, due Tuesday, February 27.
- Assignment 6, due Tuesday, March 6.
- Assignment 7, due Tuesday, March 20.
- Assignment 8, due Tuesday, March 27.
- Assignment 9, due Tuesday, April 3.
- Assignment 10, due Tuesday, April 10.
- Assignment 11, due Tuesday, April 17.
- Assignment 12, due Tuesday, April 24.
- Assignment 13, due Tuesday, May 1.
- Assignment 14, due Tuesday, May 8.
