171 Winter 2025 - Discussion

Course Info: Introduction to Modern Algebra

• Office Hours: 

  • Location - SKYE 281

  • Time: Mondays 11am-12pm

Quizzes

• Quiz 1, Monday January 13

• Quiz 2, Monday January 27

• Quiz 3, Monday February 10

• Quiz 4, Monday February 24

• Quiz 5, Monday March 10

Week 1

• Discussion - 6th Jan

  • Topics: Warm Up Worksheet

Week 2

• Discussion - 13th Jan

  • Topics: Definition of a group 

  • Quiz 1

Week 3

• Discussion - 20th Jan

  • Topics: HOLIDAY - NO CLASS

Week 4

• Discussion - 27th Jan

  • Topics: Centralisers and Automorphisms

  • Quiz 2

• Lecture - 28th Jan

  • Topics: Symmetric and Alternating groups

  • Worksheet

• Lecture - 30th Jan

  • Topics: Symmetric and Alternating groups continued, short summary

  • Worksheet same as above

Week 5

• Discussion - 3rd Feb

  • Topics: Midterm Review by Dr. Banaian

Week 6

• Discussion - 10th Feb

  • Topics: Cosets, Lagrange's Theorem

  • Quiz 3

Week 7

• Discussion - 17th Feb

  • Topics: HOLIDAY - NO CLASS

Week 8

• Discussion - 24th Feb

  • Topics: HW7 review - Normal Subgroups, Factor Groups, First Isomorphism Theorem

  • Quiz 4

Week 9

• Discussion - 3rd Mar

  • Topics: Midterm 2 Review

  • Review Worksheet

Week 10

• Discussion - 10th Mar

  • Topics: First examples of Rings

  • Quiz 5