Math 145: Algebra (Fall 2013)
Instructor: David Jao
Office hours: Tue. 3:30-4:30pm, Fri. 2:30-3:30pm
Teaching assistant: Jordan Hamilton, UWID: j4hamilton, MC 5071
Office hours: Mon. 2:00-3:00pm, Tue. 10:00-11:00am, Fri. 10:00-11:00am
It is highly recommended that students join the Google+ community (https://plus.google.com/communities/101656003719889094231) for Math 145 to keep up to date with online discussions of assignment problems.
Course materials
- Course outline (https:../../wiki/images/b/bd/Math145-outline13.pdf)
- Sample midterm 1 (https:../../wiki/images/d/da/Math145-2013-sample-midterm1.pdf)
- Sample midterm 2 (https:../../wiki/images/e/ed/Math145-2013-sample-midterm2.pdf)
- Cubic and quartic formulas (https:../../wiki/images/2/22/Cubic-and-quartic-formulas.pdf)
- Moonshine conjecture (https:../../wiki/images/3/3d/Math145-2013-moonshine-slides.pdf)
- Fermat's Last Theorem (https:../../wiki/images/f/fe/Math145-2013-fermat-slides.pdf)
- Sample final 1 (https:../../wiki/images/d/d4/Math145-2013-sample-final1.pdf)
- Sample final 2 (https:../../wiki/images/6/6f/Math145-2013-sample-final2.pdf)
- Quantum computing (https:../../wiki/images/2/2e/Math145-2013-quantum-slides.pdf)
- Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions (https:../../wiki/images/c/ce/Math145-2013-dirichlets-theorem.pdf)
- Quadratic reciprocity (https:../../wiki/images/5/5a/Math145-2013-qr.pdf)
Assignments
- Assignment 1 (https:../../wiki/images/e/e6/Math145-2013-a1.pdf) (due September 13).
- Assignment 1 grades have been posted to LEARN. Please make sure
the posted grade matches your actual grade. If your grades are not
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- You are not officially registered in Math 145, or
- You did not write your student ID number on your assignment paper, and we could not figure out who you are.
- Assignment 1 grades have been posted to LEARN. Please make sure
the posted grade matches your actual grade. If your grades are not
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- Assignment 2 (https:../../wiki/images/6/68/Math145-2013-a2.pdf) (due September 20).
- Assignment 3 (https:../../wiki/images/b/b7/Math145-2013-a3.pdf) (due September 30).
- Corrected version posted on Sept. 25 to fix a typo in Problem 10
- Assignment 4 (https:../../wiki/images/3/3b/Math145-2013-a4.pdf) (due October 11).
- Assignment 5 (https:../../wiki/images/5/51/Math145-2013-a5.pdf) (due October 25).
- Assignment 6 (https:../../wiki/images/8/8c/Math145-2013-a6.pdf) (due November 8).
- Assignment 7 (https:../../wiki/images/7/7d/Math145-2013-a7.pdf).