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MATH 18.701 Algebra Assignments
Number and date of assignment	Actual assignment -- Numbers refer to exercises given inArtin's book (see below)	Deadline (see algorithm below)
Exercises I, Friday, Sep 10.	1.1.2, 1.1.7, 1.1.13, 1.2.2, 1.2.5, 1.3.1, 1.3.4, 1.5.1, 1.5.3	Friday, Sep 17, 11 AM.
Exercises II, Friday, Sep 17.	2.1.3, 2.2.1, 2.2.3, 2.2.13, 2.2.14, 2.2.18 a & b, 2.2.19, 2.3.9, 2.3.14, 2.4.12, 2.4.18	Friday, Sep 24, 11 AM.
Exercises III, Friday, Sep 24.	2.4.6, 2.5.2, 2.5.8, 2.6.3, 2.6.10, 2.6.11, 2.7.2, 2.7.3, 2.8.4, 2.9.2, 2.9.5, 2.9.6	Friday, Oct 1, 11 AM.
Exercises IV, Friday, Oct 1.	2.3.7, 2.3.8, 2.6.12, 2.7.7, 2.8.10, 2.9.8, 2.10.3, 2.10.4, 2.10.7	Friday, Oct 8, 11 AM.
Exercises V, Friday, Oct 8.	3.1.1, 3.1.5, 3.2.1, 3.2.3, 3.2.12, 3.2.15, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.7, 3.3.14, 3.6.1, 3.6.2	Friday, Oct 15, 11 AM.
Exercises VI, Friday, Oct 15.	3.3.16, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.5, 3.4.9 (fewer because of midterm and grading)	Friday, Oct 22, 11 AM.
Exercises VII, Friday, Oct 22.	4.1.6, 4.1.8, 4.2.9, 4.3.4, 4.3.5, 4.4.1, 4.4.7, 4.4.12, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.6.5	Friday, Oct 29, 11 AM.
Good additional exercises.	4.1.1, 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 4.2.8, 4.3.6 (won't be graded)	None.
Exercises VIII, Friday, Oct 29.	5.5.10, 5.5.11, 5.5.12, 5.6.5, 5.m.7, 6.1.3, 6.1.6, 6.1.8	Friday, Nov 5, 11 AM.
Exercises IX, Friday, Nov 5.	6.4.2, 6.4.3, 6.4.16, 6.6.10, 6.8.9, 10.1.1, 10.1.9, 10.1.12, 10.1.13	Friday, Nov 12, 11 AM.
Exercises X, Friday, Nov 12.	10.1.4, 10.1.6, 10.2.7, 10.3.3, 10.3.4, 10.3.7, 10.3.9, 10.3.10, 10.4.2, 10.4.3	Friday, Nov 19, 11 AM.
Exercises XI, Friday, Nov 19.	No exercises due!	Wednesday, Nov 24, 4 PM.
Exercises XII, Wednesday, Nov 24.	10.7.7, 10.7.10, 10.7.11, 11.2.2, 11.2.5, 11.2.9, 11.3.9, 11.4.9, 11.4.12, 11.4.16	Friday, Dec 3, 11 AM.

Some information on this course:

1. Book used: Michael Artin, Algebra, Prentice-Hall, Inc.
The edition I'm using is May 1991, which is the only one available as far as I know.

2. Notation used in listing the exercises: The expression a.b.c signifies:
Chapter a, Section b, Exercise c.
It can happen that b=M; this refers to the miscellaneous problems section.

3. Lectures are on MWF, 10-11 AM in 2-105.
Attendance is strongly encouraged. The course material is the mathematics discussed in the lectures
plus the reading material announced in class.

4. Homeworks assigned: usually in the Friday lecture.
More precisely: last lecture of the week. Also see the table above.

5. Homeworks due: There will be a box labeled 18.701 in the undergraduate math office (2-108).
FIRM DEADLINE:
Put your work in this box before 10 AM the following Friday.
You have to make sure to hand in on Thursday by 4PM if Friday is a holiday, but
hand in on Wednesday by 4PM if Thursday is also a holiday: Nov 26 (Nov 25 is holiday too).

6. Names of graders: Miki Havlickova, Anna Bohmann, Olga Stroilova
Office hours of graders: Miki, Thursday 3-4 in building 2 on the 4th floor. Change!
(Take stairs acrross from 2-290 to get to the 4th floor.) If needed she will stay longer.
E-mail addresses: mikihavl@mit.edu, bohmann@mit.edu, stroilo@mit.edu

7. There will be a final exam and a midterm.
The final exam will make up roughly 30% of the final grade, and the midterm will be around 10%,
and so the assignments will make up about 60% of the grade.

8. The Midterm will be held in class on October 22.
     New: The material will be the material from the lectures including the lecture on Friday Oct 15,
                and the corresponding material from the book: Ch I, II and III (not III Section 5).
     New: Here is an approximate grading scheme based on the scores in the midterm:
                0-19         F + D + low C
                20-25       C
                26-30       low B
                31-39       not decided where split is yet
                40-50       A

9. Office hours: 11-12 AM on Monday and Wednesday.

10. The above is subject to change. Bug reports welcome.