Claas Röver's Teaching Pages - MA500-2 Master Course, Sem II 2016/17

This page is for MA500-2, one of the three masters courses.

Lectures are Mondays at 12 noon (ADB-1020), Tuesdays at 1pm (BLE-1006) and Wednesdays at 11am (ADB-1020).

Tutorials One of the lecture hours will be a tutorial from time to time.

Exam
The exam will be on 2 May 2017, from 2-4pm in ADB-1020.

Potentially all the material we covered (see notes below) may be asked. However, most of the questions will be based on — or similar to — the problems on the problem sheets, assignments and revision problems below.

Assessment: Exam (75%) and Homework (3 assignments 25%)

Books
D.J.S. Robinson, A Course in the Theory of Groups, Springer, 1993
J.J Rotman, An introduction to the theory of groups, Springer, 1995
B. Baumslag and B. Chandler, Schaum's outline of theory and problems of group theory, McGraw-Hill, 1968
P.M. Neumann, G.A. Stoy and E.C. Thompson, Groups and geometry, Oxford University Press, 1994
J.S. Milne, Group Theory, available at http://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/

Support Material
Preliminaries in ps or pdf format

Problem Sheets
Sheet 1 in ps or pdf format
Sheet 2 in ps or pdf format
Assignment 1 in ps or pdf format, which is due at the beginning of the lecture on Monday, 6 March 2017.
Sheet 4 in ps or pdf format
Assignment 2 in ps or pdf format, which is due at the beginning of the lecture on Monday, 27 March 2017.
Revision problmes in ps or pdf format