Math 145 - Fall 2011
Algebra (Advanced Level)
Instructor: David Jao. Office hours: 3:00-4:00 Mon., 3:30-4:30 Wed. & Thurs.
Teaching assistant: Adam Fuller, a2fuller@math.uwaterloo.ca, MC 6104B. Office hours: 3:30-4:30 Thursdays.
Course materials
- Course outline (https:../../wiki/images/7/7e/Math145-outline11.pdf)
- Cubic and quartic formulas (https:../../wiki/images/c/c0/Math145-2011-cubic-quartic.pdf)
- Quadratic reciprocity (https:../../wiki/images/3/31/Math145-2011-qr.pdf)
- Dirichlet's theorem (https:../../wiki/images/e/ed/Math145-2011-Dirichlets-theorem.pdf)
- Quadratic forms (https:../../wiki/images/e/e9/Math145-2011-quadratic-forms.pdf)
- Fields and polynomial rings (https:../../wiki/images/f/fe/Math145-2011-fields.pdf)
Assignments
- Assignment 1 (https:../../wiki/images/b/bf/Math145-2011-a1.pdf) (due September 16).
- The assignment given in class had an error in problem 5. The online version corrects this error.
- Assignment 2 (https:../../wiki/images/d/de/Math145-2011-a2.pdf) (due September 23).
- Assignment 3 (https:../../wiki/images/3/39/Math145-2011-a3.pdf) (due September 30).
- Assignment 4 (https:../../wiki/images/0/03/Math145-2011-a4.pdf) (due October 12)
- Assignment 5 (https:../../wiki/images/3/33/Math145-2011-a5.pdf) (due October 26)
- Assignment 6 (https:../../wiki/images/d/d1/Math145-2011-a6.pdf) (due November 2)
- Assignment 7 (https:../../wiki/images/a/a2/Math145-2011-a7.pdf) (due November 9)
- Assignment 8 (https:../../wiki/images/6/63/Math145-2011-a8.pdf) (due November 16)
- Assignment 9 (https:../../wiki/images/1/1c/Math145-2011-a9.pdf) (due November 23)
- Nov. 21, 2011: corrected an error in problem 3.