RINGS AND FIELDS
- Course Code
- MX 3531
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr R Kessar
Pre-requisites
Overview
The familiar, simple and useful properties of the integers places the set of integers at the core of any study of algebraic objects. But many of these properties hold for other familiar mathematical objects; for polynomials, real numbers, matrices etc. This course develops the theory of rings and fields which unifies the study of many of these objects and, at the same time, clarifies the differences between them.
Structure
12 week course - 2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (80%) and in-course assessment (20%).
Resit: 1 two-hour examination (maximum of 100% resit and 80% resit with 20% in-course assessment).