MAS 5308
GROUPS, RINGS, AND VECTOR SPACES II
Spring 2009,
Instructor: Amod Agashe
Office: 216 Love
Phone: 644-8704
Email: agashe@math.fsu.edu
First day handout
The final will be held on Friday May 1 and will be based on
what we did from sections 8.1 -- 8.3, 9.1 -- 9.5, 13.1 -- 13.2.
Office hours for finals week: W 1:30--2, Th 2--3, F 9:30--10.
HW 4 (due Feb 9): 1.7: 4, 5, 6, 13 (optional), 16; 4.1: 1, 2, 4 (optional);
4.2: 8, 9, 12 (optional).
HW 5 (due Feb 16): 4.3: 1, 5, 29, Optional problem: Suppose a group of order two acts on a set with 7 elements. Show that this action must have a fixed point;
4.4: 1, 3 (optional), 6, 7, 8a, 13 (optional).
HW 6 (due Feb 23): 4.5: 3 (optional hint: use the class equation), 13, 15, Optional problem: Prove that a group of order 87 is cyclic.
HW 7: pdf
HW 8: 8.1: 1c, 2c, 11; 8.2: 1, 3, 8.
HW 9: 8.3: 2, 8a (optional)
HW10: 9.1: 4, 6.
HW11: pdf
HW12: pdf
HW13: 13.1: 2; 13.2: 1, 3, 4 (only for the first element)
HW 14: 13.2: 4 (only for the second element), 5, 8 (optional), 12, 13,
14 (optional).