– Course Information
- Instructor: Stephen S. Shatz, sss [at] math.upenn.edu
- Class Timeand Location: DRLB 4C2, 10:30am - 12:10pm, Tuesday and Thursday
- Textbook: Michael Artin, Algebra, 2nd Edition
- Office Hours of the Instructor: DRLB 4N20, Tuesday Noon—2pm
- Teaching Assistant: Zhaoting Wei (George), zhaotwei [at] math.upenn.edu
- Laboratory (Recitation) Time and Location: DRLB 4N30, Wednesday 6:30pm—8:30pm
- Office Hours of the TA: DRLB 3E2, Wednesday 10:30-11:30am or by appointment
– Course Description
The description of this course can be found here.
– Someting Important
- There are no exams (not even a final) in this course.
- Attendance at the weekly laboratory (recitation) is absolutely mandatory and the TA will take record of attendence.
- All student need to solve problems on the blackboard everyweek during the recitation and it will be an important part of your grading.
– Assignments
- The schedule for the whole semester for assignments and the A and B week recitations can be found here.
- The first A assignment: Artin's Algebra, 1st edition:32/17; 33/10--13; 34/16 and 5; 35/6,12,13; 36-7/3,4,5,6. 70/15-18; 71/20,11-14; 72/13-17; 73/20,8,9,10; 74/5,10,11,12; 75/9,10; 76bot./5,10,11; 77/4,7,8,10; 105/11,2,3,4; 106/4,6,7; 107/5,6,2; 108/2,3,6,7; 145/9,1bot.; 146bot/5,6,7,9; 147/3,4,5; 149top/6,7,11,14; 149bot/7,8; 150/11,14,16; 153/6,7,10,11,12. We will discuss them on Sep. 5 and 12 in the recitations and the students will need to show their work on the blackboard.
- The first A and B assignment: due Oct. 2nd can be found here: page 1and page 2
- The second A and B assignment: due Oct. 16th can be found here: page 1and page 2
- The third A and B assignment: due Oct. 30th can be found here: page 1
- The fourth A and B assignment: due Nov. 13th can be found here: page 1
- The fifth A and B assignment: due Nov. 27th can be found here: page 1
- The sixth (last) A and B assignment: due Dec. 11th can be found here: page 1
