Math 433, Summer 2013         Tentative Day by Day Schedule for the first part of the course


Part 1. Number theory and more.

06/03
. Greatest common divisor. Euclidean algorithm (section 1.1);

06/04 Greatest common divisor of several numbers, coprime numbers. Mathematical induction (section 1.1 continued, section 1.2);

06/05 Primes and the Unique Factorization Theorem (section 1.3)
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06/06 Congruence classes and Modular Arithmetics (section 1.4);

06/07 Solving linear congruence (section 1.5)
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06/10 Chinese Remainder Theorem, Fermat's little Theorem; Euler's theorem (section 1.6)

06/11 Euler’s totient function. Public key systems (section 1.6 continued);

06/12 Functions; Relations (section 2.1, 2.2, 2.3);

06/13 Finite State Machines (section 2.4);

06/14 Review before the first exam (chapters 1 and 2). Permutations (section 4.1)

06/17 The fir
st exam.
 
Part 2 Abstract Algebra.

06/18 Order and sign of a permutation (section 4.2)

06/19 Sign of a permutation (continued). Abstract groups (section 4.2 continued and section 4.3)

06/20 Examples of groups (section 4.3 continued)

06/21 Further examples of groups. Semigroups.(section 4.3 continued, section 4.4)

06/24 Rings. Fields. Vector spaces over a field (section 4.4 continued)

06/25 Algebraic structures (section 4.4 continued).

06/26 Order of an element in a group. Subgroups (section 5.1)

06/27  Cyclic groups. Cosets. Lagrange's theorem (section 5.1 continued, section 5.2)

07/28 Subgroups (continued). Error-detecting and error-correcting codes (swection 5.2 continued, section 5.4)

07/01 Binary codes. Linear codes (section 5.4 continued)

07/02 Linear codes (section 5.4 continued). Classification of groups (section 5.3)

07/03 Review before the second exam (chapters 4 and 5)

07/05 The second exam. End of the course.