Announcements - updated November 5, 2009

• Your remaining exam will be Friday, November 20.
• 'Mathematician' is the top-ranked job.
• Here is a brief overview of the topics covered in this class, updated December 2, 2004.
• Your final exam is Monday, December 7, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm in the usual place.

Things to do

• Here are the definition terms I expect you to know.
• Homework problems.

Links

• You can check out the group theory page and the ring theory page at Wolfram's Math World site for more definitions and theorems than you can shake a stick at.
• Here are some additional facts about polynomials you might want to know.
• John Beachy at Northern Illinois University has an abstract algebra on-line page which contains many definitions and theorems.
• There is also an entire list of internet resources for modern algebra at the math forum at Swarthmore College.

Advice

• Do some homework at a fixed time and in a fixed (quiet) place every day.
• Study with other people.
• If you have "formulas" to memorize, write them out on a sheet of paper and try to reproduce that sheet without looking at it.
• When preparing for a test or quiz, pick out problems at random (either in the homework or the examples in the book) and try to do them as if you were in an exam situation (i.e., no peeking at notes).
• After a test or quiz, work through all the problems you missed until you can do them correctly.

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