Updated: 12/20/06, afternoon.
What is new: Answers to take home final exam

Announcements

• No more quizzes or HW, just the take home final exam. (The final exam has the same rules as the HW. You may work on it in groups and use any references you like. But the words must be yours. I will get it to you by the end of the week.)
• Due to complaints about WebCT, I am again posting on this webpage.

Instructor

• Kiyoshi Igusa
• Goldsmith 305
• Office hours (subject to change): MWR 10-11, MW 1-1:30 and by appointment.
• Phone 63062.
• email

Notes

• Chap 0
• Chap 1
• Chap 2
• Chap 3,4,5 (subgroups, cyclic groups, permutations)
• Chap 6 (isomorphism)
• Chap 7 (cosets)
• Chap 8 (direct product)
• Chap 9a (normal and factor gps)
• Chap 9b (normal and factor gps)
• Chap 24 (Sylow theorems)
• Chap 25a (simple groups)

Homework

• HW1:
• HW 2 revised answers to odd problems
• HW 2 answers to even problems
• HW 3 answers
• I think there was no HW4.
• HW 5 answers (Euclidean algorithm and direct product)
• HW 6 answers (on Chap 9: factor groups)
• HW 7 answers (on Chap 10: homomorphisms)

Quizzes and tests

• Practice quiz 1 with answers.
• Review for quiz 2 with answers.
• Review for quiz 3 with answers.
• Quiz 3a with answers.
• Review for quiz 3B.
• Quiz 3b with answers.
• review for Quiz 4 with hints
• Quiz 4 with answers
• Take home final exam
• Answers to take home final exam

Syllabus

• The book will be Joseph Gallian "Contemporary Abstract Algebra," 6th edition.
• We will cover Part 2 (Groups) and the first 5 chapters (24-28) of Part 5 (more groups).
• I teach this course differently each time. Here are webpages from previous years:
  • Math 30a, Fall 2004. (groups, rings and fields)
  • Math 30a, Fall 2002. (just groups)
• Tests, grades: I will tell you in class.