Instructor: Sam Evens
sevens at nd.edu
Office Hours: Tu 2:30-3:30 HH 222, Th 3:00-4:00, HH 222,
and by appointment. You may email me or call (631-7165) to set up
appointments.
- Course syllabus pdf file
Texts:
- Web textbook: Robert B. Ash, Abstract Algebra: The Basic Graduate
year. Web Text at
http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~r-ash/
- Serge Lang, Algebra, Revised 3rd edition, Springer-Verlag, on reserve
- Michael Artin, Algebra , Prentice Hall, on reserve
- D. Dummit and R. Foote, Abstract Algebra, Prentice Hall, on reserve.
- J. P. Serre, "Groupes finis" (in French)
http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/0503.5154
Class Time: TuTh 11--12:20, HH 127.
Exams :
- Midterm, tentatively set for Thursday, October 8.
- Final is Friday, December 18, 10:30--12:30, in HH 127.
Assignments: Assignments with a date at the end are due on the date
specified. Assignments are either handouts or from Dummit and Foote or Ash
- Homework 1, Tue. 9-1, pdf file
- Homework 2, Tue. 9-8, pdf file
- Homework 3, Tue. 9-15, pdf file
- Homework 4, Tue. 9-22, pdf file
- Homework 5, Tue. 9-29, pdf file
- Homework 6, Tue. 10-13, pdf file
- Homework 7, Tue. 10-27, pdf file
- Homework 8, Tue. 11-3, pdf file
- Homework 9, Tue. 11-10, pdf file
- Homework 10, Tue. 11-17, pdf file
- Homework 11, Tue. 11-24 or 12-1, pdf file
- Homework 12, Thu. 12-10, pdf file
- Hint for problem 2 from problem set 4, pdf file
- Hint for problem 6-7 from problem set 6, pdf file
- Notes on linear algebra over an integral domain, used in proof
of classification of submodules of free finitely generated modules over
a principal ideal domain, pdf file