Math 370, Fall 2006

The text for this course is "Algebra" by Michael Artin. There will be weekly homework (20%), a midterm (30%), final (40%), and occasional quizzes (10%).
In the first semester we will cover much of the material in Chapters 1 through 6 (but some of the topics will be surveyed only lightly)

Here are links to the midterm exam and its cover sheet.
There was a mistake on the cover sheet that was distributed in class -- the point scores for problems 7 and 17 were interchanged. This cover sheet has been corrected. You can use the one given out in class, but if  you do, please  correct the point scores so that we don't make a mistake in grading.

A note on the problem involving the fields of 9 and 25 elements: These are obtained from the fields of  3 and 5 elements, respectively by adjoining a square root of 2, i.e., they consist of elements of the form  a+bx  where  a  and  b  are in the smaller fields and  x² = 2.