Math 311
Spring 2006

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Instructor: Michael Joyce

• Office: Gibson 421
• Phone: 862-3444
• E-mail: mjoyce@math.tulane.edu
• Office Hours: T 1:00 - 3:00, W 10:00 - 11:00, or by appointment

Meeting Time: MWF 11:00 - 11:50

Course syllabus

Course announcements:

• HW #1 (due Wed., 1/25): A.1 #5; A.2 #1b, 2, 3b, 3e, 4, 5c, 10, 12, 13; A.3 #3, 5, 7
• HW #2 (due Wed., 2/1): 1.1 #4b, 4h, 4i, 5, 6a, 7, 17; 1.2 #1b, 1e, 1f, 2, 5, 7, 10, 12, 16b, 21
• Room Change Announcement: Class meetings are now held in Boggs 240.
• HW #3 (due Wed., 2/8): 1.2 #11, 22; 1.3 #5, 6, 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20a, 20c, 20g, 20h, 21a, 21c, 22, 30, 34
• HW #4 (due Wed., 2/15): 1.3 #20b, 20d, 29, 31; 1.4 #1, 2a, 3, 5, 6a, 6d, 7, 9, 12, 19, 20
• HW #5 (due Wed., 2/22): 2.1 #16; 2.2 #6a, 6d; 2.3 #2a, 2b, 3a, 3d, 6c, 6d, 8c, 9b, 9c, 9e, 17, 18; 3.1 #1a, 1c
• HW #6 (due Wed., 3/8): 3.1 #1b, 1d, 1e, 2, 5, 10a, 10b, 10e, 10f, 14b, 14d, 18, 20a, 20b, 23
• Exam: Monday, March 20 (in class)
• HW #7 (due Wed., 3/15): 3.2 #1, 2b, 3c, 4, 5a, 5b, 6b, 6d, 7a, 11, 16; 4.1 #3, 6, 7, 8
• Extra Credit (5 points each toward exam; due Mon., 3/20): 3.2 #6f (you must derive the answer); prove that the splitting field of f(x) = x^3 - 2 is obtained by adjoining the cube root of 2 and the square root of 3 times i to the field of rational numbers.
• HW #8 (due Wed., 3/29): 4.1 #4b, 4c, 4d, 9, 12, 14b, 15b, 15c, 18b, 18c, 20; 4.2 #1, 3c, 3e, 4b, 6, 9b, 13, 14, 17a
• Exam corrections due in class on Friday, 3/31
• HW #9 (due Wed., 4/5): 6.1 #1, 2, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18b, 18c, 18g, 23
• HW #10 (due Wed., 4/19): 6.2 #6, 8, 10, 11, 12; 6.3 #5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15
• HW #11 (due Wed., 4/26): 7.1 #3, 6, 8, 10, 14a, 18a,; 7.2 #1, 7a; 7.3 #1, 3, 6
• Final Exam: Sunday, April 30, 11:30AM-2:30PM, Boggs 240