Math 71
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Homework Assigments


Week of November 28 - 30, 2011
(HOMEWORK WILL NO LONGER BE COLLECTED)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 9.4, and begin preparing for the final.
  • Do: Work these problems.
Wednesday:
  • Study: LAST DAY OF LECTURE.
  • Do: Study for the final and bring questions to class.
Friday:
  • Study: No Class
  • Do: The final can be found on the exam page.
Week of November 21st
(HOMEWORK WILL NO LONGER BE COLLECTED)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 9.4
  • Do: Homework will no longer be collected and graded. Nevertheless, I strongly suggest you keep working the assigned problems.
  • Work these problems.
Wednesday:
  • Study: No Class
  • Do: Prepare for Thanksgiving!
Friday:
  • Study: No Class
  • Do: Rest.
Week of November 14-18, 2011
(Due Monday, November 21)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: 8.2, 9.1 and 9.2
  • Do: Page 278-9: 4a, 11ab. (Observe that for problem 11ab, it suffices for R to be a PID.)
  • Do: Page 282: 3.
Wednesday:
  • Study: 8.3
  • Do: Page 298: 4; Page 301: 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Friday:
Week of November 7 - 11, 2011
(Due Monday, November 14)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Sections 7.2 and 7.3
  • Do: Page 237: 1 and Page 247-250: 4, 10, 17 and 24. (Recall that in these problems R is ring with identity 1 not equal to 0.)
Wednesday:
  • Study: Section 7.3 and 7.4. Although we did not discss the second and third isomorphism theorems (or the fourth) for rings in lecture. You should have a careful look at Theorem 8 on page 246 and the following discussion.
  • Do: Page 247-250: 26c, 28 and 34. (Recall that in these problems R is ring with identity 1 not equal to 0.)
Friday:
  • Study: Section 7.4 and 8.1
  • Do: Page 256-257: 8, 10, 11 and 14ab.
Week of October 31 - November 4, 2011
(Due Monday, November 7th)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 5.4
  • Do: Work these problems. NOTE that your are no longer responsible for problems 17 and 27 on page 147. I should not have assigned them. (You can consider them as a special challenge if you like. But DO NOT turn them in.)
Wednesday:
  • Study: Study for the exam on Thursday
  • Do: No Assignment
Friday:
  • Study: Read Section 5.2 and 7.1
  • Do: Work these problems.
Week of October 24 - 28, 2011
(Due Monday, October 31st)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 4.1
  • Do: Work these problems.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Sections 4.2 and 4.3
  • Do: Page 122: 8, 10 and 14. (In problem 10, you are supposed to show that any group of order 6 is either isomorphic to S3 or isomorphic to Z6.)
  • Recall that we will meet tomorrow in our x-hour
(X-HOUR) Thursday:
  • Study: Sections 4.4
  • Do: Page 130: 5 and 8.
Friday:
  • Study: Sections 4.5, 5.2-- and 5.4
  • Do: Page 137: 1, 8(a) and 6.
Week of October 17 - 21, 2011
(Due Monday, October 24th)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 3.2
  • Do: p. 96: 11, 18 and 19. (For 18, consider HN. Also, you can use the First Isomorphism Theorem from the next section if you wish on 18 and and 19.)
Wednesday:
  • Study: Sections 1.7, 4.1 and 4.2
  • Do: See below
(X-HOUR) Thursday:
  • Study: Section 4.3
  • Do: Work these problems.
  • No Lecture Friday


Week of October 10-14, 2011
(Due Monday, October 17)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Section 2.4
  • Do: p. 65: 14
  • Also: Light assignment to prepare for preliminary exam Thursday.
Wednesday:
  • Study: First study for exam on Thrusday. But we are still convering new material, so you need to read section 3.1 for Monday and work the following problems.
  • Do: p. 85-6: 1, 3, 5, 7 and 36.
Friday:
  • Study: NO CLASS TODAY!
  • Do: There is an assignment due Monday!

Week of October 3 to October 7
(Due Monday, October 10)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: Sections 1.6 and 2.1
  • Do:p. 40: 9, 13 and 14.
Wednesday:
  • Study: Study Section 2.1
  • Do: pp. 48-9: 2, 8 and 15.
Friday:
  • Study: Sections 2.3 and 2.4
  • Do: p. 60: 1, 12 and 16.
Week of October 26 - 30, 2011
(Due Monday, October 31)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study:Sections 1.1 and 1.2
  • Do:pp. 22-23: 25, 34, and 35.
Wednesday:
  • Study:Sections 1.2 and 1.3
  • Do:p 27: 1c and p. 33: 1, 4a, 10 and 15.
Friday:
  • Study:Sections 1.4 and 1.5
  • Do: p. 35: 4, 5, and 8.
Week of September 19 - 23, 2011
(Due Monday, September 26th)
Assignments Made on:
Monday:
  • Study: No class
  • Do: While enjoying those fleeting moments of freedom, "unencumbered by the thought process"*, please fill out and bring the following handout to lecture on the first day of class on Wednesday. (Otherwise, put the completed form in my mailbox.)
    (*Tom and Ray)
Wednesday:
  • Study: Sections 0.1 and 0.2
  • Do: p. 4: 5, 7; p. 8: 7
Friday:
  • Study: Section 0.3
  • Do: pp 11-12: 11, 12, 13 and 14.


Dana P. Williams
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