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MAT 443
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Homework assignments
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11/17 In the textbook, we will finish section 5.3. We will then
cover section 9.3, and then going to Chapter 10.
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11/17 Remember to bring questions to class on Tuesday, 11/24. It
will be question and answer day for Test 3.
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11/16 Test 3 is coming up. It will cover
sections 4.2-4.5 and 6.1.
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10/31 Solutions for test 2 (pdf)
(protected by the same login and password as the homework solutions).
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10/28 The office hour on Wednesday, 11/4, is cancelled.
I will be out of town to give a talk at another university.
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10/22 Tuesday, 10/27, will be for questions and answers
related to the test. Thursday, 10/29, we have class as usual. Test
2 will take place on Thursday and Friday.
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10/21 After we finish Chapter 4 of the text, we will jump to
Chapter 6. You should read Chapter 5 on your own. It mainly deals with
a special case of the constructions in Chapter 6.
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10/21 We will vote on whether to have a review day for Test 2
on Tuesday 10/27, or no class on Thursday 10/29. The vote will take place
tomorrow, Thursday 10/22.
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10/14 Test 2 is coming up in a couple of weeks. It will cover
sections 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.3, and 4.1.
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10/3 Solutions for test 1 (pdf),
which is protected by the same login and password as the homework solutions.
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9/23 Event for upper-division math students and majors:
Getting started with LaTeX, Tuesday, September 29
at 4:15pm in PSA 206.
Refreshments and cookies will be served.
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9/18 Test 1 is coming up. It will cover sections 3.1, 3.2, 1.1,
and 1.2. You should expect the questions to be a mixture of stating
definitions and theorems (for theorems with names), doing computations,
and writing proofs. Proofs can be for either things proved in the course
(so in class, the text, or in assigned homework), or statements you haven't
seen before.
Two types of questions were pointed out in class as things you should
definitely know how to do: given a subset of a known ring, prove it is a
subring; and given two integers, carry out the Euclidean algorithm to
compute their gcd, and reverse it to compute values for the gcd trick.
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9/16 I had forgotten to password protect the homework solutions.
That is now done. The login name and password for the solutions will be
given in class.
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9/11 We have our first homework solution posted, so you can see
how this works. The problem itself became a link which takes you to the pdf.
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9/9 The dates for test 2 have been corrected below. The previously
listed dates included a Saturday, which would not make sense since the
Testing Center is not open on Saturdays.
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8/28
Office hours on Wednesday 9/2 may start a little late
because of a doctor's appointment.
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8/25
The ring definition pdf used in class today.
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8/24
The Math Department is running the Problem Solving Seminar, currently
taught by Igor Fulman. This course was originally designed to prepare
students for the Putnam Exam, but it is not required that the students
take the Putnam. Students will learn problem-solving techniques and
encounter problems that are not just applications of material learned
in class. Students will also get practice in presenting their
solutions in front of a (small) group.
This course meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 2:45 in Payne
Hall (EDB), room L1-32. The course number is MAT 194, 294, 394, or
494, depending on whether you are a freshman, sophomore, junior or
senior. (This enables you to take the course more than once.) Check
the Schedule of Courses for the SLNs.
Unlike in other courses, students of this course may choose the unit
value of the course: from 1 to 4 units. More points mean more
participation on the student's side. For additional information, check
the web page of the course at
http://math.asu.edu/~ifulman/fall09/mat194.
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Office hours (starting Tuesday 8/25):
Mondays 11:00-12:00
Tuesdays 12:00-1:00
Wednesdays 12:00-1:00
and by appointment
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Test dates are tentatively:
Test 1: October 1-2
Test 2: October 29-30
Test 3: November 30-December 1
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Course syllabus
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ASU/Math department policy
on rescheduling final exams.
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ASU policy on missed classes.
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