LECTURES:

• Instructor: Alex Usvyatsov.
• E-mail: alexus at math.ucla.edu.
• Office: MS 7336
• Class meets:
  • Lecture 1:
    MWF, 11:00 am -11:50 am in MS 5138 .
• Office hours:
  • Mondays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm.
  • Wednesdays, 3:00pm - 4:00pm.

DISCUSSION SESSIONS:

• TA: Alex Boisvert.
• Meets:
  • Section 1a : R at 11:00am - 11:50am in MS 5117
    
• Office: MS 2351
• Office hours:
  • Mondays, 10:00 - 11:00
  • Wednesdays, 1:00 - 2:00

TEXTBOOKS:

• [1] Thomas Hungerford, Abstract Algebra, an introduction, 2nd Edition.

GENERAL INFO:

• Course Outline
• There will be two midterms and a final exam.
• Each student must take and pass the final exam in order to pass the course.
• There will be HW assingments every week and several quizzes at discussion sessions throughout the quarter.
• Your final grade (assuming you have passed the final exam) will be calculated as follows:
  • Homework: 20 %
  • Quizzes: 10 %
  • Midterm 1: 15 %
  • Midterm 2: 15 %
  • Final Exam: 40 %
• Your final grade (assuming you have not taken the final or failed it) will be an "F".

MIDTERM SCHEDULE:

• Midterm 1 : Wednesday, 2/1/06 during regular class hours
• Midterm 2 : Monday, 2/27/06 during regular class hours

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

• Midterm 1 :
  • Sample Midterm - Section A
  • Sample Midterm - Section B
  • Sample Midterm Solution
  • More True/False Questions with answers
• Midterm 2 :
  • Sample Midterm
  • Sample Midterm Solution

• Final :
  • More True/False Questions
  • Sample Final
  • Sample Final Solution

MIDTERMS and SOLUTIONS:

• Midterm 1

• Midterm 1 - solutions

• Midterm 2

• Midterm 2 - solutions

HOMEWORK ASSINGMENTS:

• HW Assignments

HOMEWORK AND QUIZ POLICY:

• Homework is due 5 p.m. every Friday. No late homework will be accepted. Please turn it in to your TA's mailbox located on the 6th floor of MS.
• The TA will grade a selected number of problems and mark your homework with a grade between 0 and 10. Graded homeworks will be returned to you at the discussion session.
• You may discuss the homework problems with your classmates but each student must write out his/her solutions individually. The solutions should be easily readable and comprehensible.
• 20% of the final grade will be based on the average of your homework grades. Two lowest homework scores will be dropped. An unsubmitted homework (or submitted after the deadline) will be marked as 0.
• There will be short quizzes at the beginning of several discussion sessions throughout the quarter. The TA will announce at each discussion session whether or not there will be a quizz the week after. The quizzes will contain questions similar (but not necessarily identical) to those that were due the week before (i.e. on a certain Thursday you will have to solve questions similar to those submitted on Friday the week before).
• Quizzes will be marked with a grade between 0 and 10 and returned to you at the discussion sessions. 10% of your final grade will be based on the average of your quizzes grades. One lowest quiz score will be dropped. A student who misses a quiz will get 0. There will be no make-up quizzes.