MATH 4321 in SPRING 2023

Undergraduate Abstract Algebra II

• Office Hours
  • Instructor’s office hours (through Tuesday May 2):
    Tuesday and Thursday 1:10-1:45 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 May 2 will be posted on the homework website once they are known.
  • GTA = Christopher Eads
    dates & times of office hours and how to contact him can be found in the announcements of the course’s Canvas portal.
• 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 Spring 2022 homework assignments in Math 4321 (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”.
• A pdf file providing guidance on writing proofs.
• 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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