Math 103b Winter 2008

D. Rogalski will have office hours on finals week Monday 3/17 from 10am-12pm.
Andre Harmse will have office hours on finals week Tuesday 3/18 from 9-10am and 12-1pm.

The final exam review is posted on the calendar below. The three essay questions for the exam are on the review sheet. The exam will require you to write either 2 or 3 of these essays (I haven't decided), but you must prepare all three.

Here is the rundown on exactly where to find in the book the topics we have covered in the last few weeks of class.

After Wednesday March 12 we will have pretty much covered everything in Chapter 23, which was the goal of the last few weeks. Feel free to use all of the results proved in the text of that chapter as you work the homework problems, especially the fact that an angle of 20 degrees is not constructible, even though we won't cover that until March 12.

We covered on March 7, in a quick way, Chapter 19, though we didn't talk about subspaces and I didn't prove invariance of basis size (Theorem 19.1).

From Chapters 20-21, we are covering the following (but in a rather different way--- rely on your notes more than the text): Theorem 20.3; Definitions of algebraic and transcendental on page 369; Theorem 21.1 (in part); Definition of degree of an extension on p. 371, and Theorem 21.5.

Instructors

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Syllabus

The Course syllabus contains all of the details about grading, course policies, and so on---please read it thoroughly.

Calendar Winter Quarter 2008

Note: The schedule of lectures is approximate and is subject to revision during the term. Chapter numbers refer to Gallian, Contemporary Abstract Algebra, 6th Edition. Lectures without a chapter number involve material not covered in Gallian.