MATH W4041:
 Intro to Modern Algebra I
 Spring 2009

This page is http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/S09/ModernAlgebra

Section 001
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00am-12:15pm
302 Milbank Hall (Barnard)

Dave Bayer <bayer@math.columbia.edu>
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer
426 Mathematics, +1 (212) 854-2643

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Exams

Including our final, there will be a total of three exams that determine the course grade.

These dates do not coincide with any religious holiday which causes suspension of New York City's alternate side parking regulations; see NYC Parking Calendar. Please discuss other conflicts with me well in advance of the exam in question.

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Text

Algebra, by Michael Artin. Prentice Hall, 1991. ISBN-10: 0130047635, ISBN-13: 9780130047632. List price, $138. Columbia University Bookstore. Amazon ($110, $70 and up used). AddALL ($60 and up used). International editions of inferior quality are also widely available; carefully study any online offer to make sure that this is not what you're buying, unless this is what you want.

Teaching Assistant

Course materials

I taught this course last year; please see S08 Modern Algebra I for exams and exam solutions from that semester.

• Triangle Orbits
• S08 Exam 1
• S08 Exam 1 Solutions
• Practice Exam 1
• Exam 1
• Exam 1 Solutions
• Makeup Exam 1
  
  
• Practice Exam 2

For the final, be able to prove all three Sylow theorems, and be able to classify groups of most orders less than 100:

• Other proofs of Sylow theorems
• Classification problems of order less than 100
• Walter Neumann's notes on semidirect products

(Order 100 itself is in principle amenable to our methods, but there are many candidates, and it is tedious to check which ones are isomorphic.)

Calendar

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