Course Description:
In Math 5a we will concentrate on group theory. This corresponds roughly to Chapters 1-5 of the text.
Class lectures will sometimes cover slightly different material and often cover material from a different point of view.

TEXT:
Dummit and Foote, Abstract Algebra, Third Edition, John Wiley, 2004.

GRADES:
Roughly 40% Homework, 30% Midterm, and 30% Final.

HOMEWORK POLICY:
Students may work together on homework as long as each student writes up their own homework in their own words.

In solving homework problems you will wish to quote theorems and lemmas from class and the text. Results from the text in sections not yet covered cannot be quoted unless you supply your own proof.
The same holds for results from other texts not covered in class.

Many of the problems which will be assigned this year in Math 5, also were assigned last year in Math 5.
Do not consult the solution sets for 2003 in working on this years homework.

At most one late homework set will be accepted, and except in unusual circumstances, only if arrangements have been made with me in advance.

Other than in exceptional circumstances, homework will not be accepted more than a week after the deadline.