Approximate Lecture Schedule

Tuesday
Thursday

Sep 8: Introduction and Preliminaries (Chapter 1)
Sep 13: Definitions; Elementary properties of groups (Chapter 2) Sep 15: Subgroups introduced (Chapter 3)
Sep 20: Subgroups concluded; Cyclic groups introduced (Chapters 3-4)
Sep 22: Cyclic groups concluded; Permutation groups introduced (Chapters 4-5)
Sep 27: Permutation groups (Chapter 5)
Sep 29: Even and odd permutations; isomorphisms introduced (Chapters 5-6)
Oct 4: Isomorphisms; Cayley's Theorem (Chapter 6)
Oct 6: Properties of isomorphisms; automorphisms (Chapter 6)
Oct 11: Cosets and Lagrange's Theorem (Chapter 7) Oct 13: Lagrange's Theorem (Chapter 7)
Oct 18: Orbit-stabiliser Theorem; Direct products (Chapters 7-8) Oct 20: Direct products concluded (Chapter 8)
Oct 25: Catch-up and Review Oct 27: Midterm Exam
Nov 1: Rings and their properties (Chapter 12) Nov 3: Subrings; integral domains and fields (Chapters 12-13)
Nov 8: Characteristic; Normal subgroups (Chapters 13 and 9) Nov 10: Quotient groups (Chapter 9)
Nov 15: Internal direct products; Homomorphisms (Chapters 9-10) Nov 17: Homomorphisms (Chapter 10)
Nov 22: Isomorphism theorems (Chapter 10) Nov 24: Ideals; factor rings (Chapter 14)
Nov 29: Galois Theory; Ring homomorphisms, isomorphisms (Chapter 15) Dec 1: Divisibility tests; Sylow Theorems (Chapter 24)
Dec 6: Sylow Theorem proofs (Chapter 24) Dec 8: Review and catch-up

Final Exam:
2pm on Tues, Dec 13