Welcome to MAT 534

Algebra I is one of the core courses intended for first-year graduate students. It is the first course in the 2-semester sequence (Algebra I, Algebra II) which covers the basics of algebra: groups, rings, fields, vector spaces, polynomials, Galois theory...

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Announcements

Announcements are listed in reverse choronological order: most recent announcement at the top.

12/4/14

Final exam will be in class (not a take-home exam!) on Fri, 12/15. For more info, check the page Exams

11/8/14

HW 10 has been posted.

10/31/14

HW 9 has been posted.

10/23/14

HW 8 has been posted.

10/9/14

The midterm will be on Tu, Oct 14. It will be open book: you can bring book, notes, homeworks. It will cover the materila we have covered up to Tu, Oct 7 (see here).
For practice with the material on PID, you can do the following problems in Dummit and Foote:

• p. 282, problem 3
• p. 283, problem 5
• p. 278, problem 7

10/4/14

HW 6 has been posted. Sorry for the delay

09/30/14

The web server is back online, so the assignments will again be posted here. Please check "Homeworks" page if you did not get HW 5.
Also: the date of midterm has been announced: it will be on Tu, Oct 14.

09/19/14

HW 4 has been posted.

09/12/14

HW 3 has been posted.

09/4/14

HW 2 has been posted. Also, I've added my office hours in General information.

08/27/2014

First homework has been posted.