Math 100B (Abstract algebra 2)
Contact information
- Instructor: Aaron Pollack; apollack@ucsd.edu
- TAs: Bryan Hu brhu@ucsd.edu; Finley McGlade fmcglade@ucsd.edu
Office hours
See Canvas for the Zoom links
- Pollack: Monday, Wednesday 1:00pm-1:50 pm (APM 5829); Thursday 11:00am-11:50am (Zoom)
- Hu: Tuesday 1:30pm-3:30pm (HSS 5086)
- McGlade: Wednesday, Friday 8:30am-10:30am (HSS 4085)
Lecture Topics
Recorded lectures can be found on Canvas
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Monday 9 January: Introduction to course
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Wednesday 11 January: Rings: definition and examples (11.1)
- Friday 13 January: Algebraic numbers; units of rings; polynomial rings (11.1,11.2) Sage notebook from Lecture 2 and 3
- Wednesday 18 January: Ring homomorphisms (11.3)
- Friday 20 January: Kernels and ideals; characteristic of a ring; fields (11.3)
- Monday 23 January: More on kernels and ideals (11.3)
- Wednesday 25 January: Product rings; quotient rings (11.4)
Homework Assignments
Homework is due by 10:00pm Pacific time on Gradescope on the days listed below
- Wednesday January 18th Homework 1 Solutions
- Wednesday January 25th Homework 2 Solutions
- Wednesday February 1st Homework 3
- Wednesday February 8th
- Wednesday February 15th
- Wednesday February 22nd
- Wednesday March 1st
- Wednesday March 8th
- Wednesday March 15th
Exams