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Contents, Appendix, and Index
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Eighth homework assignment: Final version.
Due Tuesday, December 19 at noon in my office (E449) (no
extensions):
Chapter 4, p. 133 #2,4,6,8
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Seventh homework assignment, due Tuesday, December 5:
Chapter 3, pp. 95-96 #33,34
Sixth homework assignment, due Tuesday, November 21:
Chapter 3, p. 94 #21abc,22
Fifth homework assignment, due Tuesday, November 14
(Note change of date and assignment):
Chapter 3, pp. 94-95 #18,26(both (a) & (b))
plus:
Show that every group of order 24 has a normal subgroup
of order 4 or of order 8
Fourth homework assignment, due Tuesday, October 31
Note change of date: Now due on Halloween!
Chapter 3, pp. 92-94 #2,3,9,10,13,17
plus Problem 2.G on pp. 70-71
Third homework assignment, due Thursday, October 12:
Chapter 2, pp. 62-63
#1(for vector spaces only),4,5,8,9,13
plus extra credit problem (worth 5 points): #3
Second homework assignment, due Thursday, September 28
(Note change of date):
Chapter 1, pp. 35-39 #5,8,15ab,19,21,27
First homework assignment, due Tuesday, September 12:
Hand in Chapter 1, pp. 35-39 #4, plus the group assigment
(present #2 or #3)