Math 503, Spring 2018
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: M 1:30-2:30 on class days; also after class, as announced, and by appointment.
- Teaching Assistant:
-
Yubo Guo, Labs 101-102.
- Office: DRL 3C17.
Off. hrs: Tu 1:30-2:30, Th 3-4.
E-mail:
guoyubo AT math.upenn.edu
- Labs:
- 101, Tu 6:30-8:30pm, DRL 4C2.
- 102, Th 6:30-8:30pm, DRL 4C2.
Course
structure:
- Lectures: MW 10:30-12, DRL 4C6.
- Labs: T or Th, 6:30-8:30pm, DRL 4C2.
- Textbook:
"Algebra" by Michael Artin, second edition, Addison Wesley, 2010.
- Homework: Weekly problem
sets, to be handed in at lab. Problem Set info
- Exams: Two exams in class during the semester, on Wed., Feb
21 and Wed., April 25. (No final exam.)
Exam 1 info.
Exam 2 info.
- Grading: The homework assignments and the exams will count equally toward the grade.
Participation in class and lab will also count.
Description of course:
This is a the second semester of a year-long masters level course in algebra that discusses groups,
rings, fields, vector spaces and modules. The spring semester will cover roughly the second half of the text,
which includes a number of topics. The emphasis will be on rings, fields, modules, and Galois theory.
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, and the course will assume material from Math 502 (corresponding to the first half of the Artin text).
The first two meetings of the lecture are on Wednesday, Jan. 10 and on Wednesday, Jan. 17.
The labs begin on Thur., Jan. 11. In weeks when there is only one lab due to Penn's academic calendar,
all students in Math 503 are invited to attend that lab.
Homework assignments for Math 503