Math 5590H + 5111: Honors Abstract Algebra I. (Instructor: Sergei Chmutov)

Autumn 2025. Tentative Daily Schedule

8/26 (Tue) Class 1.
Introduction. Group axioms. (Sec.1.1)
8/27 (Wed) Class 2.
First examples of groups. (Sec.1.1)
8/28 (Thu) Class 3.
Subgroups, order. (Sec.1.1)
8/29 (Fri) Class 4.
Groups of orders 1, 2, 3, 4. (Sec.1.1)
9/01 (Mon)
NO CLASSES.
Labor Day.
9/02 (Tue) Class 5.
Dihedral groups. (Sec.1.2)
9/03 (Wed) Class 6.
Generators and relations.(Sec.1.2)
9/04 (Thu) Class 7.
Symmetric groups. (Sec.1.3)
9/05 (Fri) Class 8.
Matrix Groups and Q8. (Sec.1.4,1.5)
9/08 (Mon) Class 9.
Homomorphisms.
(Sec.1.6)
9/09 (Tue) Class 10.
Group Actions. (Sec.1.7)
9/10 (Wed) Class 11.
Centralizers. (Sec.2.2)
9/11 (Thu) Class 12.
Cyclic groups. (Sec.2.3,2.4)
9/12 (Fri) Class 13.
The lattice of subgroups of a group. (Sec.2.5).
9/15(Mon) Class 14.
Cosets and index. (Sec.3.1)
9/16 (Tue) Class 15.
Normal subgroups. (Sec.3.1)
9/17 (Wed) Class 16.
Quotient groups. (Sec.3.1)
9/18 (Thu) Class 17.
Lagrange's theorem. (Sec.3.2)
9/19 (Fri) Class 18.
Isomorphism theorems. (Sec.3.3)
9/22 (Mon) Class 19.
Composition Series. (Sec.3.4)
9/23 (Tue) Class 20.
Alternating Group. (Sec.3.5)
9/24 (Wed) Class 21.
Alternating Group. (Sec.3.5)
9/25 (Thu) Class 22.
Midterm #1 review.
9/26 (Fri) Class 23.
Midterm #1.
9/29 (Mon) Class 24.
Orbits, stabilizers.
(Sec.4.1)
9/30 (Tue) Class 25.
Cayley's theorem. (Sec.4.2)
10/01 (Wed) Class 26.
Burnside’s Theorem.
10/02 (Thu) Class 27.
Conjugation. (Sec.4.3)
10/03 (Fri) Class 28.
Automorphisms. (Sec.4.4)
10/06 (Mon) Class 29.
Sylow's theorems. (Sec.4.5)
10/07 (Tue) Class 30.
Sylow's theorems. (Sec.4.5)
10/08 (Wed) Class 31.
Simplicity of An. (Sec.4.6)
10/09 (Thu) Class 32.
Simplicity of An. (Sec.4.6)
10/10 (Fri) Class 33.
Direct products. (Sec.5.1)
10/13 (Mon) Class 34.
Finite abelian groups. (Sec.5.2)
10/14 (Tue) Class 35.
Finite abelian groups. (Sec.5.2)
10/15 (We) Class 36.
Groups of small order. (Sec.5.3)
10/16 (Thu)
NO CLASSES.
Autumn Break.
10/17 (Fri)
NO CLASSES.
Autumn Break.
10/20 (Mon) Class 37.
Semidirect products. (Sec.5.4,5.5)
10/21 (Tue) Class 38.
Commutators subgroup. (Sec. 6.1)
10/22 (Wed) Class 39.
Solvable groups.
(Sec. 6.1)
10/23 (Thu) Class 40.
Solvable groups.
(Sec. 6.1)
10/24 (Fri) Class 41.
Free groups. (Sec.6.3)
10/27 (Mon) Class 42.
Rings and fields. (Sec.7.1)
10/21 (Tue) Class 43.
Examples of rings. (Sec.7.2)
10/29 (Wed) Class 44.
Examples of rings. (Sec.7.2)
10/23 (Thu) Class 45.
Homomorphisms. (Sec.7.3)
10/31 (Fri) Class 46.
Ideals. (Sec. 7.4)
11/03 (Mon) Class 47.
Principal ideals.
(Sec. 7.4)
11/04 (Tue) Class 48.
Prime ideals.
(Sec. 7.4)
11/05 (Wed) Class 49.
Maximal ideals.
(Sec. 7.4)
11/06 (Thu) Class 50.
Midterm #2 review.
11/07 (Fri) Class 51.
Midterm #2.
11/10 (Mon) Class 52.
Rings of fractions. (Sec.7.5)
11/11 (Tue)
NO CLASSES. Veterans Day.
11/12 (Wed) Class 53.
Chinese remainder theorem. (Sec.7.6)
11/13 (Thu) Class 54.
Euclidean domains. (Sec.8.1)
11/14 (Fri) Class 55.
Euclidean domains. (Sec.8.1)
11/17 (Mon) Class 56.
Principal ideal domains. (Sec. 8.2)
11/18 (Tue) Class 57.
Principal ideal domains. (Sec. 8.2)
11/19 (Wed) Class 58.
Unique factorization domains. (Sec. 8.3)
11/20 (Thu) Class 59.
Quadratic integer rings. (Sec. 8.3)
11/21 (Fri) Class 60.
Prime elements in Z[i]. (Sec.8.3)
11/24 (Mon) Class 61.
Polynomials. (Sec.9.1)
11/25 (Tue) Class 62.
Polynomials over fields. (Sec.9.2)
11/26 (Wed)
NO CLASSES. Thanksgiving.
11/27 (Thu)
NO CLASSES. Thanksgiving.
11/28 (Fri)
NO CLASSES. Columbus Day observed.
12/01 (Mon) Class 63.
Gauss's lemma.
(Sec.9.3)
12/02 (Tue) Class 64.
Irreducibility.
(Sec.9.4)
12/03 (Wed) Class 65.
Irreducibility.
(Sec.9.4)
12/04 (Thu) Class 66.
Roots of polynomials.
(Sec.9.5)
12/05 (Fri) Class 67.
Roots of polynomials.
(Sec.9.5)
12/08 (Mon) Class 68.
Gröbner basis.
(Sec.9.6)
12/09 (Tue) Class 69.
Gröbner basis.
(Sec.9.6)
12/10 (Wed) Class 70.
Review for the final.
                                                                                                                              12/18 (Thu) FINAL, 10:00--11:45am