LECTURES:

• Instructor: Alex Usvyatsov.
• E-mail: alexus at math.ucla.edu.
• Office: MS 7336
• Class meets:
  • Lecture 1:
    MWF, 1:00 pm -1:50 pm in MS 5127 .
• Office hours:
  • Mondays, 4:00pm - 5:00pm.
  • Wednesdays, 2:00pm - 3:00pm.

DISCUSSION SESSIONS:

• TA: Lin Chen.
• E-mail: chenlin at math.ucla.edu.
• Meets:
  • Section 1a : R at 1:00pm - 1:50pm in MS 5127
    
• Office: MS 2925
• Office hours:
  • Tuesdays, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

TEXTBOOKS:

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

GENERAL INFO:

• Course Outline
• There will be one midterm 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.
• Your final grade (assuming you have passed the final exam) will be calculated as follows:
  • Homework: 30 %
  • Midterm: 30 %
  • Final Exam: 40 %
• Your final grade (assuming you have not taken the final or failed it) will be an "F".

MIDTERM SCHEDULE:

• Midterm 1 : Monday, 2/13/06 during regular class hours

SAMPLE QUESTIONS:

• Midterm. Updated on Friday 2/10!
• If you want to know what my tests generally look like, take a look at the sample (and actual) midterms of 110A. Your midterm will look like a combination of Midterm1 and Sample Midterm2 there, and will not be easy...
• The midterm will be based on sections 7.1 -- 7.4.
• You have to know the proofs of the following theorems: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.5, 7.8, 7.10, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13, 7.15, 7.16, 7.19, 7.20, 7.21
• You have to remember and understand all definitions and notions we studied: group, additive and multiplicative groups of a ring, product of groups (GxH), order of an element, subgroup, the center Z(G), cyclic, generators, isomorphism, homomorphism, injective (1-1), surjective (onto).

• Final : More Questions

Midterm:

• Midterm

• 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.
• 30% 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.