Algebra II (M2PM2) course home page

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Algebra II example sheets.

Sheet 1 and solutions.
Sheet 2 and solutions.
Sheet 3 and solutions.
Sheet 4 and solutions.
Sheet 5 and solutions.
Sheet 6 and solutions.
Sheet 7 and solutions.
Sheet 8 and solutions.
Sheet 9 and solutions.

Algebra II tests.

Test 1 and solutions.
Test 2 and solutions.

Course summary.

This course has two parts -- one on group theory, and one on linear algebra.
For the group theory part, here are some introductory books:

J.B. Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, Addison Wesley
R.. Allenby, Rings, Fields and Groups, Arnold
W. Ledermann, Introduction to Group Theory
I.N. Herstein, Topics in Algebra

For the linear algebra part, you might like to try

S. Lang, Linear Algebra
J. Fraleigh and R. Beauregard, Linear Algebra, Addison Wesley
S. Lipschutz and M. Lipson, Linear Algebra, Schaum Outline Series, McGraw Hill

Office hour.

Thursdays 1200-1300 (finishing in week 11, i.e. 12th Dec 2013).

Panopto.

Panopto (i.e. "videos of the lectures") now seems to be working for everyone, and you should be able to view videos of lecture 3 onwards, apart from lecture 7. You should be able to see the directory "KBuzzardAY13-14" if you are a second year maths/JMC student and you log in; that's where the lectures will land.

Some lectures, for various reasons, were not recorded on Panopto. Here are links to scanned lecture notes for Lecture 1, Lecture 2, Lecture 7, Lecture 13, and Lecture 28.