Instructor: Dan Abramovich
Class meeting: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 2:00-2:50pm 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/f0910/251/index.html
Preliminary Office hours: Monday, 3:00-4:00, Friday 11:00-11:50, 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:
problem set 1, due: Friday Sep 23.
problem set 2: Lang Chapter 1 ex 12, 14, 28, 29, 32, 39, 41, 42, 46. due: Monday Oct 10.
problem set 3, due: Monday Oct 24.
problem set 4, due: Wednesday Nov 18.