Information on the course
M2PM2
Lecturer: Prof M W Liebeck
The course will have a
problem sheet handed out at the lecture on Monday each week. The sheet will
also appear on the web page. There will be three assessed courseworks.
Solution sheets
Solutions to the problem
sheets will be posted on the web page about 2 weeks after the sheets are handed
out:
Office hour: Thursday
12.00, Room 665
For group theory, there are
many good introductory books. Here are a few suggestions:
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 linear algebra, here are
a few good ones:
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