Administrative Information


Discussion is Tuesday 2PM at MS 6229.

Office hours will take place in my office MS 3919 Tuesday 4-5PM and Thursday 12-1PM. You can also always feel free to email me for an appointment!

Resources


Course website

My website from last quarter. I have notes from my discussion sections and remarks on homework problems.

Homework policy


10 problems will be due on gradescope every two weeks. Problems will be given 0, 1, or 2 points. Up to a week after I finish grading a problem, you can resubmit the solution and get back whatever points were missed.

Discussion notes


Week 01 - 04/04 on Kronecker's theorem and how to define maps out of F[t]/(f), got through 6/6 pages. Week 02 - 04/11 on transcendence bases, got through 4/6 pages Week 03 - 04/18 on factoring t^16 - 1 and its relation to (Galois) orbits
Week 04 - 04/25 on Moebius inversion, got through 5/8 pages Week 05 - 05/02 on purely inseparable extensions Week 06 - 05/09 on finite fields
Week 07 - 05/16 on the Newton identities and the discriminant Week 08 - 05/23 on Luroth's theorem Week 09 - 05/30 on Luroth's theorem (again)