Math 145: Algebra (Fall 2014)

Instructor: David Jao
Office hours: MWF 10:30am-11:20am

Teaching assistant: Ehsaan Hossain, ehossain(@uwaterloo.ca), MC 5173, x37357
Office hours: Thurs. 12:30pm-2:30pm

It is highly recommended that students join the Google+ community (https://plus.google.com/communities/103225223249302544611) for Math 145 to keep up to date with online discussions of assignment problems.

Course evalations

Please log in to https://evaluate.uwaterloo.ca/ prior to the last day of class to fill out online course evaluation forms.

Course materials

• Course outline (https:../../wiki/images/b/bd/Math145-2014-outline.pdf)
• Proof of mathematical induction (https:../../wiki/images/4/49/Math145-2014-induction.pdf)
• Sample midterm problems (https:../../wiki/images/f/fe/Math145-2014-sample-midterm1.pdf)
• More sample midterm problems (https:../../wiki/images/2/27/Math145-2014-sample-midterm2.pdf)
• Solutions to selected sample midterm problems (https:../../wiki/images/9/98/Math145-2014-midterm-solutions.pdf)
• Midterm statistics (https:../../wiki/images/e/e9/Math145-2014-midterm-slides.pdf)
• Fermat's Last Theorem in  (https:../../wiki/images/c/ce/Math145-2014-fermat.pdf)
• Roots of cubic and quartic polynomials (https:../../wiki/images/c/c0/Math145-2014-polynomials.pdf)
• Quadratic forms (https:../../wiki/images/0/0c/Math145-2014-qf.pdf)
• Sample final exam problems (https:../../wiki/images/9/95/Math145-2014-sample-final1.pdf)
• More sample final exam problems (https:../../wiki/images/e/e1/Math145-2014-sample-final2.pdf)

Solutions

• Sample solutions (https:../../wiki/images/5/51/Math145-2014-solutions.pdf) to assignment problems (except Assignment 9)

Assignments

• Assignment 1 (https:../../wiki/images/e/ef/Math145-2014-a1.pdf) (due September 12).
• Assignment 2 (https:../../wiki/images/2/27/Math145-2014-a2.pdf) (due September 19).
• Assignment 3 (https:../../wiki/images/b/b1/Math145-2014-a3.pdf) (due September 29).
• Assignment 4 (https:../../wiki/images/9/90/Math145-2014-a4.pdf) (due October 3).
• Assignment 5 (https:../../wiki/images/c/cb/Math145-2014-a5.pdf) (due October 17).
• Assignment 6 (https:../../wiki/images/c/c0/Math145-2014-a6.pdf) (due October 24).
• Assignment 7 (https:../../wiki/images/8/8c/Math145-2014-a7.pdf) (due October 31)
• Assignment 8 (https:../../wiki/images/a/aa/Math145-2014-a8.pdf) (due Monday November 17)
• Assignment 9 (https:../../wiki/images/6/6f/Math145-2014-a9.pdf)