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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.