MA3825 On-Line Materials -- Rings and Fields

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Rings and Fields -- MA3825

Section B01

Here, you can find on-line versions of material distributed in class. Note that links without attached dates are not yet active. (All quotations here are borrowed from our text.)

Jump now to Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8.

• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 1 -- October 27 to October 31.

  Assignment 0 (October 27, 2009): Due Friday, October 30 "There is no substitute for hard work." (Edison, p242) In PDF format. Assignment 0 Solutions Assignment 1 (October 30, 2009): Due Friday, November 6 "The purpose of proof is to understand, not to verify." (Ross, p64) In PDF format.

  "The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics." (Halmos, p35) Course syllabus (October 27, 2009): in PDF format.

• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 2 -- November 2 to November 6.

  Assignment 2 (November 6, 2009): Due Friday, November 13 "Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do." (Knuth, p118) In PDF format. Armand Spencer's mantra for curing symptoms of proofitis.

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• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 3 -- November 9 to November 13.

  Assignment 3 (Nov. 13, 2009): Due Friday, November 20 In PDF format.

• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 4 -- November 16 to November 20.
• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 5 -- November 23 to November 24.

  Assignment 4 (Nov. 24, 2009): Due Tuesday December 1 In PDF format.

• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 6 -- November 30 to December 4.

  Assignment 5 (Dec. 3, 2009): Due Monday December 7 In PDF format. Assignment 6 (Dec. 6, 2009): Due Friday, December 11 In PDF format.

• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 7 -- December 7 to December 11.

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• RINGS AND FIELDS, WEEK 8 -- December 14 to December 17.

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Here, in PDF format, is Armand Spencer's silly but useful handout on inventing proofs.