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Details

Times: MWF 1000 for lectures, Th 1000 for discussion sections.

Place: Lunt 101 for lectures, Frances Searle 2107 for discussion sections.

Office hours: 30 minutes before and 30 minutes after each class, in Lunt Hall 304.

Textbook: Dummit and Foote’s Abstract algebra, 3rd edition, available at the campus bookstore.

Catalog description: group theory, including the Sylow theorems.

Full syllabus: on Canvas.

Syllabus

09/19. Topic 1. The first day of class is Wednesday 09/21.

09/26. Topic 2. Courses will meet either on Zoom or will have a substitute; no office hours this week.

10/03. Topic 3. The course on Friday 10/07 will meet on Zoom.

10/10. Topic 4.

10/17. Topic 5. Midterm project due Friday 10/21.

10/24. Topic 6. Midterm on Friday 10/28.

10/31. Topic 7.

11/07. Topic 8.

11/14. Topic 9.

11/21. Topic 10. No classes on Thursday or Friday to observe Thanksgiving.

11/28. Reading period begins; no classes.

12/07. Final project due at 1700.