Math 503, Spring 2007

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 (starting Jan. 19).
• TA: Stefano Guerra, DRL 3E6A.

• Lectures: MW 1:30-3, DRL 4C6.
• Labs: M or W, 6:30-8:30pm, DRL 4C6.
• Textbook: "Algebra" by Michael Artin, Prentice-Hall, 1991.
• Homework: Weekly problem sets, to be handed in at lab.
• Exams: Two exams in class, on Mon., Feb. 26 and Wed., April 18. (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 371, but is less abstract and less general than Math 603. Students are expected to have some prior familiarity with vector spaces and groups (e.g. the spectral theorem and the Sylow theorems), and the course will assume material from Math 502 (corresponding to the first half of the Artin text).

Homework assignments for Math 503

• 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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