Algebra II - Spring 2014 - V63.0344

Syllabus

Click here postscript LaTeX pdf for an outline and lots of information. [Currently very tentative!!]

Instructor

Prof. Joel Spencer
wwh 829; x83219; {lowercaselastname}@cims.nyu.edu

Class Hours

Monday, Wednesday 11-12:15; Room TBA

Recitation

TBA

Texts

Topics in Algebra by Herstein

General Stuff

This website deals with Algebra II, Spring 2014. Students are expected to have taken Algebra I, though not necessarily from Prof. Spencer and not necessarily Fall 2012. The basic subject matter is Fields, including Galois Theory.

Questions?

Send me an email: {lowercaselastname}@cims.nyu.edu

Various Notes

TBA

Galois Theory Notes

Later

Scribe

We will have a scribe system. Each class one student will take careful notes and these will be placed here for all to see. The notes can be on a word processing system (LaTeX is Prof. Spencer's favorite) or (most often!) NEATLY written and sent as .jpg (or similar) photo(s).

Assignments

Generally there will be assignments every week. The assignments will be posted, usually on Monday or Tuesday. They are due back in the recitation section.

SPECIAL NOTE: Prof. Spencer encourages collaboration on the assignments. Find someone (preferably, someone smarter than you!) or, even better, create a small group and discuss the assignments together. However, all students must hand in the assignments individually and must write out the solutions in their own words. At the top of the assignment the collaborators must be listed: E.g.: Collaboration with Niels Abel and Emmy Noether.

Solutions

TBA

Midterm

TBA

Extra Stuff

An interesting historical piece on the origins of Galois Theory written by our own Prof. Edwards: Click here This appeared in the Notices of the American Math Society.