Instructor: Victor Kac
Email: Kac@math.mit.edu
Office: Room 2-176
Office Hours: By Appointment
Grader: Dongkwan Kim (sylvaner@mit.edu)
Grader's Office Hours: Friday 3.30-4.30, Room 2-334
Lectures: TR 3:00 - 4:30pm 2-139
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Focuses on traditional algebra topics that have found greatest application in science and engineering as well as in mathematics: group theory, emphasizing finite groups; ring theory, including ideals and unique factorization in polynomial and Euclidean rings; field theory, including properties and applications of finite fields. 18.700 and 18.703 together form a standard algebra sequence.
Prerequisites: Calculus II (GIR)
Text Book: A First Course in Abstract Algebra, John B. Fraleigh