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    This document provides information about Math 344: Introduction to Group Theory and Applications course offered in the fall of 2007. The course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00-11:50 am in room 343 Neuberger Hall. It will be taught by Dr. John Caughman and aims to develop students' mathematical abilities and understanding of group structures. Students will study group properties, examples, and applications through homework, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Class participation will also be part of the overall grade.

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    This document provides information about Math 344: Introduction to Group Theory and Applications course offered in the fall of 2007. The course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00-11:50 am in room 343 Neuberger Hall. It will be taught by Dr. John Caughman and aims to develop students' mathematical abilities and understanding of group structures. Students will study group properties, examples, and applications through homework, quizzes, a midterm exam, and a final exam. Class participation will also be part of the overall grade.

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    Math 344: Introduction to Group Theory and Applications

    Fall 2007

    Meeting Time and Place: TR 10:00 – 11:50 343 Neuberger Hall

    Instructor: Dr. John Caughman, [email protected]


    Office Hours: (319 NH) Tues 12:00, Thur 1:00
    Web: http://www.mth.pdx.edu/~caughman/ Text: No Required Text.

    Course Objectives:
    1. Develop your ability to do mathematics: read mathematics, talk about mathematical ideas
    with others, generalize from examples, make conjectures, prove theorems, and explain
    your mathematical thinking to others.
    2. Develop your understanding of mathematical structures and the pervasive role they play
    in mathematics.

    To achieve these objectives, we will study a particular mathematical structure called a “group.”
    We will explore many examples of groups, investigate their properties, subsets, and special
    cases, and use functions defined on these structures to analyze and compare them and to build
    new structures from them.

    Homework Assignments: Homework will be assigned regularly. Late assignments will not be
    accepted. As you work on homework exercises, you are encouraged to work with others in the
    class. Please remember to credit any person or source that provides help on an assignment.
    It will not be possible to grade each individual homework problem. For each assignment, a
    subset of problems will be selected for grading and your grade will be determined by the quality
    of your responses to these problems.

    Quizzes: There will be two 30-minute quizzes. One will be given around Oct 11th, the other
    around November 8th.

    Exams: One midterm exam will be given, probably October 25th. The Final Exam will be
    Tuesday December 4th, 2007, 10:15 to 12:05 in the usual classroom.

    Class Participation: You will be expected to participate in all aspects of class every day. Your
    attendance and your level of participation in class activities will factor into your class
    participation grade. This grade will be determined in part by the instructor’s observation of
    your participation. Additionally, at the end of each class, you will submit a “exit card” to provide
    evidence of your participation: Essentially, you will write your name and the date on a piece of
    paper along with a either a brief description of something significant that you learned during
    the class session OR a question that you have about the mathematics we worked on during the
    class session.

    Course Grade: 25% Homework, 20% Midterm, 15% Quizzes, 25% Final Exam, 15% Class
    Participation.

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