Dr
Vancliff's MATH 4321 in Spring 2022
at
UTA
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Math 4321: Undergraduate Abstract Algebra II
Office Hours
Instructor's
office hours through Tuesday May 3:
Tuesday & Thursday
1:10-1:45 pm and 4:40-5:15 pm in PKH 462 (or in MS Teams – see
Canvas Announcements for the link), or by appointment.
Instructor’s office hours after Tues May 3 will be posted on the homework website once they are known.
GTA
= Amairani (“Mai”) Hernandez Garcia
(amairani.hernandezgarcia@mavs.uta.edu
),
office
hours (through Tuesday May 3):
Mondays 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
and Wednesdays noon-1:00 pm on
MS Teams (see Canvas Announcements for the link).
Homework. Make sure you are viewing the most current version of the homework page and not the version in your browser's cache; reload the page from source, or clear the cache and reload the page. Skimming through the main ideas in a section shortly before that section is covered in class should help you understand the lecture -- try it!
Course's Canvas portal.
Tips
on how to study & more
tips on how to study.
Since some of the
lectures
will be recorded, it will be tempting to put off watching them until
“later”. Even students with the best of intentions find
themselves falling behind on the material. Be aware of this and
savvy about it – keep up with the lectures and the homework
assigned every week – do not leave the studying until “later”.
For those of you interested in applications of abstract algebra, you could surf the web, or consult this website or this website at NASA or this other website at NASA or this other website for items to read. A website at NASA that illustrates applications of category theory (a subfield of abstract algebra) is here.
7 Mathematics-related careers voted among top-10 best jobs in 2021!! (In fact, the top-rated job was Data Scientist, which requires understanding zeros of polynomials, a topic to be discussed in our course.)
(copied
from Don Bovee at math.washington.edu)