Instructor: David Savitt
Office: Math Building, Room 214
E-mail: savitt at math dot arizona dot edu
Phone: 621-2170
Office hours: TBA

Time: MWF, 1-1:50 pm
Location: Math 501

Textbook: Rotman, Advanced Modern Algebra

Syllabus: This is the continuation of Math 511a from Fall 2006.

Grades: There will be weekly homework assigments (usually due on Wednesdays); one midterm exam, some time in late March or early April; and a final exam.

Homework: (all numbered problems from Rotman)

• Homework 1 (due Jan 24): Section 3.7, #3.71 through 3.80;
• Homework 2 (due Jan 31): dvi file
• Homework 3 (due Feb 7): dvi file
• Homework 4 (due Feb 16): dvi file
• Solutions to HWs 1-4: dvi file
• Homework 6 (due Mar 7): dvi file
• Homework 7 (due Mar 21): Section 7.2 #7.27, 7.29, 7.30; Section 7.3 #7.35, 7.38; in problem 7.29, also describe the initial and final objects (if any) in the category of rings.
• Solutions to HWs 5-7: dvi file
• Homework 8 (due April 11): Section 8.1 #8.7, 8.10, 8.15, 8.17, 8.18. Also solve (but do not hand in) #8.4, 8.12, 8.16, 8.20, 8.21.
• Homework 9 (due April 18): Section 8.2 #8.26, 8.28, 8.29, 8.34, 8.35
• Homework 10 (due April 25): Section 8.3 #8.36-8.40
• Solutions to HWs 8-10: pdf file