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The final exam will roughly match the format / difficulty of this mock exam.
The result of mandatory assignment should be accessible from the canvas system. Suggested solutions for the mandatory assignment are also available.
Hallvard Hareide (hallvhar@student.matnat.uio.no) is the student representative (tillitsvalgte) for this course.
| Date | Sections |
|---|---|
| 22. Apr | Section 31 |
| 25. Apr | Section 33 |
| 29. Apr | Section 48 |
| 2. May | Section 49 |
| 6. May | Section 50 |
| 9. May | Section 53 |
| 13. May | Revision |
| 16. May | Revision |
| 20. May | |
| 23. May |
Mandatory assignment is here: Assignment PDF. The deadline is?Thursday 20th March 2025, 14:30.
For those who want to read ahead the reference book, this is the plan up to Easter break.
| Date | Sections |
|---|---|
| 18. Feb | Section 14 |
| 21. Feb | Section 15 |
| 25. Feb | Section 16 |
| 28. Feb | Section 18 |
| 4. Mar | Section 19 |
| 7. Mar | Section 20 |
| 11. Mar | Section 21 |
| 14. Mar | Section 22 |
| 18. Mar | Section 23 |
| 21. Mar | Section 24 |
| 1. Apr | Section 26 |
| 4. Apr | Section 27 |
| 8. Apr | Section 29 |
| 11. Apr | Section 30 |
We follow the numbering of the 7th edition of Fraleigh's "A first course" (the "plain" 7th edition and the "international" 7th edition are basically the same). If you want to use the 8th edition, here is the correspondence table up to part III:
| sections in 7th | sections in 8th |
| 2 | 1 |
| 3 | 1, 2 |
| 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 | 6 |
| 7 | 7 |
| 8 | 8 |
| 9 | 8 |
| 10 | 10 |
| 11 | 9 |
| 12 | 11 |
| 13 | 8 |
| 14 | 12 |
| 15 | 13 |
| 16 | 14 |
| 17 | 15 |
Wednesday lectures will be exercise by tutor (Torger Olson). On 22 January, he will explain problems from Sections 1–4 of the reference book.
Section 1: 32,34
Section 2: 23
Section 3: 2,3,8
Section 4: 1-6,29,32
Welcome to the 2025 spring edition of MAT2200 Groups, rings and fields! We will follow Fraleigh, A first course in abstract algebra, 7th edition, almost from head to tail, except Chapter VIII on algebraic topology.