Math 502, Fall 2006

Abstract Algebra

• Faculty: David Harbater
• E-mail: harbater AT math.upenn.edu
• Telephone: (215) 898-9594; Department office: (215) 898-8178
• Office: DRL 4E2A; Department office: DRL 4W1-6.
• Office hours: F 1:30-2:30.
• TA: Stefano Guerra, DRL 3E6A.

• Lectures: MW 1:30-3, DRL 4C6.
• Labs: T or Th, 6:30-8:30pm, DRL 4N30.
• Textbook: "Algebra" by Michael Artin, Prentice-Hall, 1991.
• Homework: Weekly problem sets, to be handed in at lab.
• Exams: In class, Oct. 25 and Dec. 6. (No final exam.)

The course will be varied, involving theory, computations, and examples. It is open both to undergraduates and graduate students, from the Mathematics Department and elsewhere at Penn. The course is more in-depth than Math 370, but is less abstract and less general than Math 602. Students are not expected to have prior familiarity with groups, rings, fields or modules, but are expected to have seen and worked with vectors and matrices (e.g. knowing about eigenvectors and diagonalization of matrices). Those who need to brush up on their linear algebra background, or who would like an additional reference for this material during the semester, may wish to look at the paperback book "Linear Algebra" by Lipschutz and Lipson in the Schaum Outline series, or at a standard text like "Linear Algebra" by Hoffman and Kunze.

Homework assignments for Math 502

• Problem Set 1

• Problem Set 2

• Problem Set 3

• Problem Set 4

• Problem Set 5

• Problem Set 6

• Problem Set 7

• Problem Set 8

• Problem Set 9

• Problem Set 10

• Problem Set 11

• Problem Set 12

• Problem Set 13

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