Math 453

Course Information

Please read the course syllabus. The textbook is Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications by Thomas W. Judson, and it is freely available online.

Problem sets and the final project should be turned in on Brightspace by the due date. Please contact me at gkopp “at” purdue “dot” edu with any questions.

Problem Sets

• Problem Set 1 (due Wednesday, January 19, at 11:00am)
• Problem Set 2 (due Wednesday, January 26, at 11:00am)
• Problem Set 3 (due Wednesday, February 2, at 11:00am)
• Problem Set 4 (due Wednesday, February 9, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 5 (due Wednesday, February 16, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 6 (due Wednesday, February 23, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 7 (due Wednesday, March 2, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 8 (due Wednesday, March 9, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 9 (due Wednesday, March 30, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 10 (due Thursday, April 7, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 11 (due Monday, April 18, at 11:59pm)
• Problem Set 12 (due Monday, April 25, at 11:59pm)
• Practice Exam (due Tuesday, May 3, at 11:59pm)

Final Project

• Project guidelines and ideas
• Project template (.zip file)

Workshops

• Workshop 1: Introduction to SageMath for abstract algebra (Friday, January 14)
• Workshop 2: Cyclic and non-cyclic groups (Friday, January 28)
• Mini-Workshop 3.1: Permutation groups (Friday, February 4)
• Mini-Workshop 3.2: Cosets (Friday, February 11)
• Workshop 4: LaTeX (Friday, February 25)
• Workshop 5: RSA (Friday, March 11)
• Workshop 6: Quotient Rings (Monday, April 4)
• Workshop 7: Field Extensions (Friday, April 15)

Supplementary Material

• Axioms for the Integers handout with exercises