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MATH 4163 MODERN ALGEBRA Section 001

Instructor: Gábor Hetyei
Office: Fretwell 335F, Phone: 867-2543, E-mail: ghetyei@uncc.edu
Office hours:   MWF 2:15-3:15 pm or by appointment.
Text: Topics in Algebra by I. N. Herstein, second Ed., John Wiley & Sons.
Prerequisite: MATH 3163 or consent of the department.
Topics:
Group Theory (Chapter 2)
Ring Theory (Chapter 3)
Fields (Chapter 5, up to Section 5.3)
Test Dates:
Test 1 Monday September 23, 10:00-10:50 am.
Test 2 Wednesday November 6, 10:00-10:50 am.
Final Exam Monday December 9, 2002 8:00am - 11:00am.
(Double-check in the UNCC Exam schedule !)
Homework: Homework will be handed in nearly every week, and will be usually due on Monday. I will make an effort to regularly post the homework on the webpage http://www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei/courses/4613/hw.html .  In case of discrepancy, what I said in class is "official".
Evaluation: Grades will be based on: 25% for the homework, 21 % for each of the tests, and 33 % for the final.
Class meeting: MWF 10:00-10:50 am in Fretwell 206.
Homepage: http://www.math.uncc.edu/~ghetyei/courses/4613/index.html