Meets:    MWF 10–10:50am in BU 24
Instructor:    Eric Moorhouse,   Ross 6³=216.

Textbook:  Shahriari, Algebra in Action: A Course in Groups, Rings and Fields, AMS, 2017.

HW2 (postponed) is now due 5:00pm on Fri Mar 6.

Handouts/Links

•   Lecture slides, videos and computer sessions
•   Students Frequently Ask Me ...
•   Students and Teachers Working Together (UW policy on the rights and responsibilities of students and teachers)
•   UW Policy on Academic Honesty
•   Syllabus / Policies
•   Shahriari's video presentations based on our textbook.  The first 16 lectures from this playlist are relevant to our course.
•   Watch my instructional videos
  • Advice for Learning Mathematics
  • Equivalence Relations
  • Complex Numbers
  • Sets
  • Cardinality
  • Logic
  • Mathematical Induction
•   Read the handouts
  • Reading and Writing Proofs
  • Mathematical Induction
  • A Quick Review of Linear Algebra
  • Basic Properties of the Integers
  • Sets and Cardinality
  • Complex Numbers
•   HW1 due 5:00pm, Wednesday, February 11 on WyoCourses.   Solutions.   Average: 55/77
•   HW2 due 5:00pm, Friday, March 6 on WyoCourses (note that the due date has been postponed by 48 hours).)

/ revised February, 2026