Fall 2000
Last modified 9/2/00
| Monday | Wednesday | ||
| 09/06 | Welcome & Introduction to Course | ||
| Chapter 0: Preliminaries | |||
| 09/11 | Chapter 0: Preliminaries | 09/13 | Chapter 2: Groups |
| Chapter 1: Intro to Groups | |||
| Chapter 2: Groups | |||
| PS 1 (individual) due | |||
| 09/18 | Chapter 2: Groups | 09/20 | Chapter 3: Finite Groups; Subgroups |
| Chapter 3: Finite Groups; Subgroups | |||
| PS 2 (group) and Topic due | Quiz 1 | ||
| 09/25 | Chapter 4: Cyclic Groups | 09/27 | Chapter 4: Cyclic Groups |
| Abstract due | Catch up? Get ahead? The Big Picture? | ||
| PS 3 (individual) due | Rough draft due 9/29 or 10/2 | ||
| 10/02 | Presentations | 10/04 | Presentations |
| PS 4 (group) due | |||
| 10/09 | 10/11 | Chapter 5: Permutation Groups | |
| Fall Break | Quiz 2 | ||
| Hand out Takehome Exam 1 | |||
| 10/16 | Chapter 5: Permuation Groups | 10/18 | Chapter 6: Isomorphisms |
| PS 5 (individual) due | Takehome Exam 1 due | ||
| 10/23 | Chapter 6: Isomorphisms | 10/25 | Chapter 7: Cosets and Lagrange's Theorem |
| Chapter 7: Cosets and Lagrange's Theorem | Chapter 8: External Direct Products | ||
| PS 6 (individual) due | Quiz 3 | ||
| 10/30 | Catch up? Get ahead? The Big Picture? | 11/01 | Chapter 9: Normal Subgroups |
| Chapter 9: Normal Subgroups | Chapter 10: Group Homomorphism | ||
| PS 8 (group) due | |||
| 11/06 | Chapter 10: Group Homomorphisms | 11/08 | Chapter 10: Group Homomorphism |
| Ch 11: Fundamental Thm of Abelian Groups | |||
| Topic due | Quiz 4 | ||
| PS 9 (individual) due | Hand out Takehome Exam 2 | ||
| 11/13 | Ch 11: Fundamental Thm of Abelian Groups | 11/15 | Catch up? Get ahead? The Big Picture? |
| PS 10 (group) due | Chapter 12: Intro to Rings | ||
| 7:30 Johnson lecture: Tom Banchoff | Takehome Exam 2 due | ||
| 11/20 | Chapter 13: Integral Domains | 11/22 | |
| Thanksgiving Break | |||
| PS 11 (individual) due | |||
| 11/27 | Chapter 14: Ideals and Factor Rings | 11/29 | Chapter 15: Ring Homomorphism |
| Abstract due | Rough draft due 12/1 or 12/4 | ||
| PS 12 (group) due | Quiz 5 | ||
| 12/04 | Presentations | 12/06 | Presentations |
| PS 13 (ind) due | |||
| 12/11 | Catch up? The Big Picture? Chapter 17? | 12/13 | |
| Hand out Take Home Final | |||
Janice Sklensky
Wheaton College
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Science Center, Room 109
Norton, Massachusetts 02766-0930
TEL (508) 286-3973
FAX (508) 285-8278
jsklensk@wheatonma.edu