Math 109 Winter 2005 Class Schedule

Homework Assignments

Important Note: This schedule is only tentative, and may be adjusted as necessary during the quarter.

January

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
3	4 Chs. 1 & 2 Introduction, symmetry, definition of a group	5	6 Ch. 2 & 3 Examples of groups, first two proofs	7
10	11 Ch. 4 Dihedral groups, begin subgroups	12	13 Chs. 5 and 11 Subgroups and generators, Lagrange's theorem HW 1 due	14
17	18 Chs. 11 & 6 Corollaries of Lagrange's Theorem, Permutations	19	20 Ch. 6 More on permutations, alternating group HW 2 due	21
24	25 Ch. 7 Isomorphisms and Homomorphisms	26 MIDTERM I 7-8:30 p.m. Location: TBA	27 Chs. 7 & 8 How to make Isomorphisms and Cayley's theorem HW 3 due	28

February

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	1 Chs. 10 & 12 Products and Quotients	2	3 Chs. 14 & 15 Conjugacy and quotient groups HW 4 due	4
7	8 Ch. 16 Homomorphism theorems	9	10 Ch. 17 Actions, orbits, stabilizers HW 5 due	11
14	15 Ch. 18 Counting orbits	16	17 Ch. 20 Sylow's theorems HW 6 due	18
21	22 Examples of Sylow's theorems	23 MIDTERM II 7-8:30 p.m. Location: Herrin T175	24 Applications to physics, special relativity, Matrix groups HW 7 due	25

March

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

Applications to chemistry, representation theory

2

3

More representation theory

4

7

8

Applications to Art

9

10

Applications to more math

11

FINAL DRAFT OF WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE

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