Schedule

Course Page: http://www.math.msu.edu/~magyar/math310 .

The dates below are tentative. Changes will be announced in class and on our course page.

Section numbers refer to Hungerford, Abstract Agebra: An Introduction (3rd ed). We will cover Ch 1−6. Homework will be assigned daily on the course page.

Q	Date	Section: Topic
1	8/29	Ch 1.1: Division & Euclidean algorithms
2	8/31	Ch 1.2: Divisibility
	9/3	Labor Day, no class
3	9/5	Ch 1.3: Primes & unique factorization Last day to change sections online
4	9/7
5	9/10	Ch 2.1: Congruence and congruence classes
6	9/12	Ch 2.2: Modular arithmetic
7	9/14
8	9/17	Ch 2.3: Structure of Zp and Zn
9	9/19
10	9/21	Ch 3.1: Rings, definition and examples
11	9/24	Ch 3.2: Basic properties of rings Last day to drop course with tuition refund
12	9/26	Ch 3.3: Isomorphisms and homomorphisms
13	9/28
14	10/1	Ch 4.1: Polynomial arithmetic & division algorithm
15	10/3	Ch 4.2: Divisibility in F[x]
16	10/5	Ch 4.3: Irreducibles and unique factorization
17	10/8	Ch 4.4: Polynomial functions, roots, reducibility
18	10/10	Review
19	10/12	Review
	10/15	Midterm exam in class
20	10/17	Ch 4.6: Irreducibility in R[x] and C[x] Last day to drop course with no grade reported
21	10/19	Fundamental Theorem of Algebra
22	10/22
23	10/24	Ch 5.1: Congruence in F[x] and congruence classes
24	10/26
25	10/29	Ch 5.2: Congruence-class arithmetic
26	10/31
27	11/2	Ch 5.3: Structure of F[x]/(p(x)) for irreducible p(x)
28	11/5
29	11/7	Ch 6.1: Ideals and congruence
30	11/9
31	11/12	Ch 6.2: Quotient rings and homomorphisms
32	11/14
33	11/16	Ch 6.3: Structure of R/I for I prime or maximal
34	11/19
35	11/21	Special topic
	11/23	Thanksgiving Break, no class
36	11/26	Special topic
37	11/28	Special topic
38	11/30	Special topic
39	12/3	Review
40	12/5	Review
41	12/7	Review
	12/11	Final exam Tue Dec 11, 2018 at 3:00pm−5:00pm in Wells A-216 (lecture room)