Mathematics 434-A

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  • Speaker Presentation Schedule
  • Office Hours
  • Course Information Sheet
  • Tentative Course Calendar
  • Grade Information
  • Tips on Writing and Studying Mathematics
  • Homework Problems
  • Problems ``to be turned in''
  • University Calendars
  • Archive: Midterm for Spring 2001
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    Speaker Presentation Schedule

    April 11, 15,16 Katherine Walton, Matt Burke Development of the Real numbers
    April 18,19,22 Matt Wright, Martin Cochran Cyclic Redundancy Checks (Coding Theory)
    April 23,25,26 Lisa Thorngren, Kirticia Calkins Encryption
    April 29, 30 Erin Matoza Galois Theory
    May 2,3,6 Sean Slee, Jeffrey Early Quantum Theory and Groups
    May 7, 15 Jenny Nichols, Noah Chang Coding Theory?
         
         
         
         

    Writing and Studying Tips

  • Basic Study Tips (Includes a list of Prelude Strategies)
  • Sophisticated Study Guides (A nice compilation of insights and resources for improving your study skills by Joe Landsberger, University of St. Thomas.)
  • Basic Tips for writing mathematics. (PDF)
  • ``The Elements of Style'' (by William Strunk, Jr.). This is the standard reference for expository writing and is now available in searchable electronic form. (Courtesy of Project Bartleby).
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    Homework Problems

  • Fall: Problem Sets 1,2,3
  • Fall: Problem Set 4
  • Fall: Problem Set 5 (Isomorphisms)
  • Fall: Problem Set 6 (Homomorphisms)
  • Fall: Problem Set 7 (Equivalence Relations)
  • Fall: Problem Set 8 (Cosets)
  • Fall: Problem Set 9 (Restrctions of Homomorphisms)
  • Fall: Problem Set 10 (Products of Groups)
  • Fall: Problem Set 11 ( Modular Arithmetic)
  • Fall: Problem Set 12 (Quotient Groups)
  • Fall: Problem Set 13 (Groups and Symmetry in the Plane )
  • Fall: Problem Set 14 (Finite and Discrete Groups of Rigid Motions)
  • Fall: Problem Set 15 (Abstract Symmetry, Group Actions and Actions on Cosets)
  • Fall: Problem Set 16 (Counting Formula)
  • Fall: Problem Set 17 (Sylow Theorems)

  • Homework Spring 2002

  • Spring: Exercise Set 1 ( Sylow Theorems (same as Fall # 17))
  • Spring: Exercise Set 2 (Bilinear Forms)

    • Problems ``to be turned in'' Fall 2001

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  • Fall: Set 1.
  • Fall: Set 2
  • Fall: Set 3
  • Fall: Set 4
  • Fall: Set 5
  • Fall: Set 6
  • Fall: Set 7
  • Fall: Set 8
  • Fall: DiscreteGroups_Figure 1 (GIF)
  • Fall: DiscreteGroups_ Figure 2 (GIF)
  • Fall: Set 9
  • Fall: Set 10
  • Fall: Set 11
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    Problems to Turn in Spring 2002

  • Spring Problem Set 1: Rubiks Cube (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 2 Rubiks Cube Part 2 (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 3 Burnsides Theorem (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 4 Finite Abelian Groups (PDF)
  • Spring: ProblemSet 5 Basics about Rings (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 6 Ideals and Homomorphisms (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 7 Quotient Rings, Relations and Adjunction (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 8 (PDF)
  • Spring: Problem Set 9 (PDF)

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