Math 360, Fall 2013

Course information

• See the syllabus for general information and the schedule of readings.
• Class meets Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 11:00 a.m.-11:50 a.m., in W-1-46.
• 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 Mondays during the last fifteen minutes of class. (In weeks when Monday is a holiday, the quiz happens on Wednesday.) The first quiz is on Monday, September 9.
• First midterm: Wednesday, October 9.
• Second midterm: Wednesday, November 6.
• Final exam: Monday, December 16 at 11:30 am to 2:30 pm in the same classroom

Student Study Group

• There are a number of students who have expressed interest in forming a study group. Please see the discussion page for more information.

Notes

I've posted my notes for the midterm here.

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, September 9.
• Assignment 2, due Monday, September 16.
• Assignment 3, due Monday, September 23.
• Assignment 4, due Monday, September 30.
• Assignment 5, due Monday, October 7.
• Assignment 6, due Wednesday, October 16.
• Assignment 7, due Monday, October 21.
• Assignment 8, due Monday, October 28.
• Assignment 9, due Monday, November 4.
• Assignment 10, due Wednesday, November 13.
• Assignment 11, due Monday, November 18.
• Assignment 12, due Monday, November 25.
• Assignment 13, due Monday, December 2. (Note: we will have the quiz on Wednesday, December 4.)
• Assignment 14, due Monday, December 9. (Note: we will have the quiz on Wednesday, December 11.)
• Assignment 15, due Friday, December 13.