Instructor: Dan Abramovich
Class meeting: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:00-11:50pm in Kassar 105
Office: Kassar 118
Telephone: (401) 863 7968
E-mail: abrmovic ( at ) math (period) brown (dot) edu
Web site: http://www.math.brown.edu/~abrmovic/MA/f0809/index.html
Preliminary Office hours: Monday, Friday 1:00-2:00, or by appointment

Text: ALGEBRA by Serge Lang, 3rd rev. ed. 2002. Corr. 4th printing, 2004. ISBN: 0-387-95385-X
Topics: Groups and group actions; Categories and functors; Rings and modules; Fields and Galois theory.

Homework: (exercises from Dummit & foote till I get a copy of Lang.)

Choose 12 and submit by Friday the 19th.

p 23 ex 31
p 28 ex 9-13
p 33 ex 2, 12, 15
p 35 ex 11
p 36 ex 1
p 40 ex 4-9, 17, p 41 ex 23, 25, 26
p 44 ex 10, p 45 20-23
p 48 ex 6, p 49 ex 13
p 53 ex 14
p 60 ex 13, p 61 ex 26

Choose 15 from the following link , at least 4 from 1-8 and at least 7 from the rest, and submit by Monday November 3.

Do the following link , by Friday November 21.

Do the following link , by Monday December 8.

Announcements

No class Monday dec 1 and Friday Dec 5. There will be class on Wednesday Dec 3.