MATH 3321 in FALL 2023

Undergraduate Abstract Algebra I

• Office Hours
  • Instructor’s office hours (through Tuesday Dec 5):
    Monday and Wednesday 1:40-2:15 pm and 4:40-5:15 pm in PKH 462 (or in MS Teams – see Canvas Announcements for the link), or by appointment.
  • Instructor’s office hours after Tues Dec 5 will be posted on the homework website once they are known.
  • MATH 3321 is served by the “Math Clinic”. See here for the days & times that help is provided therein for MATH 3321. On Sept 13, 2023, those days & times are listed as being:
    Mon 8a-12p & 5-9p | Tue 8-10:30a & 5-7p | Wed 8-10:30a & 5:30-7p | Thu 8-10:30a & 5-7p | Fri 8a-12p | Sat 1-6p.
• Syllabus
• Homework
  • Make sure you are viewing the most current version of the homework page and not the version in your browser’s cache; reload the page from source, or clear the cache and reload the page.
  • Skimming through the main ideas in a section shortly before that section is covered in class should help you understand the lecture – try it!
  • Instructor’s Fall 2019 homework assignments in Math 3321 (using the 7th edition of our textbook).
• Course’s Canvas portal
• Tips on how to study & more tips on how to study.
  Since some of the material will occasionally be recorded, it will be tempting to put off watching the videos until “later”. Even students with the best of intentions find themselves falling behind on the material. Be aware of this and savvy about it – keep up with the lectures, material and the homework assigned every week – do not leave the studying until “later”.
• For those of you interested in applications of linear algebra or abstract algebra, you could surf the web, or consult this website or this website at NASA or this other website at NASA or this other website for items to read. A website at NASA that illustrates applications of category theory (a subfield of abstract algebra) is here.
• 7 Mathematics-related careers voted among top-10 best jobs in 2021!! (In fact, the top-rated job was Data Scientist, which uses tons of linear algebra, both at a superficial level and at a very deep level, and also uses some abstract algebra.)

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