Summer Session II 2006 MAT 312 (AMS 351)

 

What to study for the Final Exam

 

Applied Algebra

Instructor

Daniel An  danan@math.sunysb.edu
Math Tower 2-107
Office Hours : Wednesday and Thursday 4pm to 6pm @ MLC*

Time/Place

Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 6:00PM to 8:15PM  @ Physics P116

Grader

Lena Panok  lena@math.sunysb.edu
Math Tower 2-114
Office Hours : Monday 5pm-7pm, Tuesday & Wednesday 11am-1pm, Thursday 11am-2pm @ MLC*

Textbook

Textbook: Numbers, Groups and Codes (2nd ed.),
                  J. F. Humphreys, M. Y. Prest, Cambridge University Press
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Grading

Homework(15%) Project(10%) Midterm(30%) Final(45%)

Prerequisites

1. MAT 203 or MAT 205 or AMS 261 (Multivariable Calculus)
2. MAT 211 or AMS 210 (Linear Algebra)

 *MLC stands for Math Learning Center, and it is located at the basement of Math Tower (S-240).

Homeworks (All homeworks will be graded out of 15. Easier problems will worth fewer points.)

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Due

Homework (Problems are from the textbook)

1

Wednesday July 19th 2006

1.1 1-(iv),5,6 1.2 5,8,9

2

 Wednesday July 26th 2006

Take your time to read through Chapter 1.3 to 1.5
1.3 1,3 1.4 2,3-(v),4 1.5 1-(i),1-(iv),2-(iii)

Also send a email containing your full name, to danan@math.sunysb.edu so that I can assign you the first project. The projects will only be assigned through email, so be sure to email!

3

 Monday July 31st 2006

1.3 6 (hint) 1.5 4-(ii) 1.6 1-(iii),2-(iv),6,10

4

 Monday
Aug 7th 2006

2.3 5,6,7,8 4.1 3,4 3.1 3  (You will probably want to do 2.3 and 4.1 before midterm 1!)

5

 Wednesday Aug 16th 2006

3.3 1 4.2 1-(ii), 4, 5,7,13 (Just for fun : Google Noyes Chapman's fifteen puzzle for the historical account of this problem) 4.3 1-(v),1-(viii)

6

 

To be announced (or may not be assigned.)

7

 

To be announced (or may not be assigned.)

 

 

 

Syllabus

Date

Material to be covered

July

12

1.1 The division algorithm and greatest common divisors

      

13

1.2 Mathematical Induction

     

17

1.3 Primes and unique factorisation Theorem 1.4 Congruence classes

    

19

1.4 Congruence classes (cont'd)

  

20

1.5 Solving linear congruences

  

24

1.6 Euler's Theorem and public key codes (Project 1)

  

26

2.1 Elementary set theory   2.2 Functions

  

27

2.2 Functions (cont'd) 2.3 Relations

   

31

4.1 Permutations

Aug

2

overview of 3.1 Propositional logic and 3.3 Some proof strategies

    

3

 Midterm Exam

    

7

4.2 The order and sign of permutations

   

9

overview of 4.3, 4.4, 5.1, beginning of 5.3

   

10

5.2 Cosets and Lagrange's Theorem

   

14

5.3 Groups of small order 5.4 Error-detecting and error-correcting codes

    

16

5.4 Error-detecting and error-correcting codes (cont'd)

    

17

Review

     

21

 Final Exam

 

 


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