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Schedule (tentative) — subject to change


1/23 - 1/27 1.3 - GCDs, division, Euclid's Algorithm
1/30 - 2/3 1.4 - The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
1.5 - Congruences and Fermat's Theorem
2/6 - 2/10 1.5 - The Chinese Remainder Theorem
2.1 - Sets, maps and equivalence relations
2/13 - 2/17 2.2 - Permutations
2/20 - 2/24 2.3 - Groups and examples
2/27 - 3/2 2.4 - Subgroups and Lagrange's Theorem
2.5 - Homomorphisms of groups
3/5 - 3/9 2.6 - Quotient Groups and Isomorphisms Theorems
3/12 -3/16 Prelim: Part I, 3/12 & Part II, 3/14 in class — covers through 2.5
Cayley graphs
Spring Break 3/17 – 3/25
3/26 - 3/30 2.7 - Group actions
4/2 - 4/6 2.8 - Counting with groups
3.1 - Rings and subrings
3.2 - Fields
4/9 - 4/13 3.3 - Polynomial rings
3.4 - Homomorphisms of rings
4/16 - 4/20 3.5 - From numbers to polynomials
4/23 - 4/27 3.6 - Unique factorization
Summary handout
3.7 - Irreducibility
4/30 - 5/4 3.8 - Quotient rings and finite fields
Final Exam 5/18, 2:00pm–4:30pm, MLT 406 — comprehensive