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Lecture: Tuesday, Thursday 1:30-2:45, in Keller 413
Instructor: Ralph Freese
      Office: 305 Keller
      Phone: 956-9367
      email:email me
      Office hours: T-Th 2:45-3:15, F 1-2 and by appointment (or just come to my office
                               and see if I'm in)

• Midterm: Open book (but don't just search online for a solution); due Apr 14. Do the following from the class notes:
  
  
  • Exercises 3.20, 1, 2, and 3.
  • Exercises 3.21, 1, 2, 3, and 4.


• Class Notes (updated 3/19/2011)
  
  
• TeX source for the Notes.
  
  
• Book: We will be using N. Jacobson, Basic Algebra I & II, and Dummit and Foote, Abstract Algebra. The Jacobson books are now in paperback and very inexpensive. We will also use Hungerford for some of the proofs.


• Errata for Dummit and Foote


• Other Good Books:
  • Hungerford, Algebra
  • Isaacs, Algebra
  • Herstein, Toppics in Algebra (really an undergrad book, but quite good)


• William DeMeo's Universal Algebra Notes: UA Notes


• Professor Lampe's Group Actions Notes: Group Actions


• Burnside Problem: History of the Burnside Problem


• Keith Conrad's Expository Notes on Various Parts of Algebra


• Peter Cameron's Notes on Primitive Permutation Groups and the O'Nan-Scott-Aschbacher Theorem , which is part of the Encyclopaedia of DesignTheory. See also its Library Topics.