RINGS AND FIELDS

Course Code

MX 3002

Credit Points

15

Course Coordinator

Dr S Theriault

Pre-requisites

MA 2002 and MA 2504

Overview

This is a first course in abstract algebra. The familiar, simple and useful properties of the integers places the set of integers at the core of any study of algebraic objects. But many of these properties hold for other familiar mathematical objects; for polynomials, real numbers, matrices etc. This course develops the theory of rings and fields which unifies the study of many of these objects and, at the same time, clarifies the differences between them.

Structure

12 week course - 2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (80%) and in-course assessment (20%).

Resit: 1 two-hour examination (maximum of 100% resit and 80% resit with 20% in-course assessment).