There are four lectures per week: Monday 11.00 in
Faraday Lecture Theatre, and Tuesday 14.00, Wednesday 9.00 and
Thursday 16.00 in Bowland Main Lecture Theatre. (The times and
venues are subject to confirmation).
Expect to spend 1–2 hours
between the lectures to read the notes carefully and reflect on the
material covered in preparation for the next lecture.
There is one workshop per week: Friday at either 13.00
or 15.00, depending on which workshop group you are registered
with.
Note: workshop attendance is compulsory; a permanent
record of your attendance is kept in the department.
The deadlines for submission of work (weeks 2–5) are
as follows:
Answers to the tutor-assessed exercises: Wednesday 17.00 in your tutor’s pigeonhole, which can be found in the department (Fylde B Floor) near the bridge to the Postgraduate Statistics Centre. Please note: if multiple sheets are submitted, they must be stapled together; otherwise 1 mark may be lost.
Answers to the online quiz: Wednesday 23.59 (that is, before midnight between Wednesday and Thursday). Access is through the Moodle course webpage, which can be found at:
https://modules.lancaster.ac.uk/my/
You will need your university windows network username and password to
log in.
There is one problem-solving class per week in weeks
2–4, either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, depending on which class
you are registered with. The class will appear as
practical (P) in your electronic timetable. There are no
problem-solving classes in weeks 1 and 5.
The end-of-module test takes place in the final lecture
in week (16.00 on Thursday November) in either
Bowland Main Lecture Theatre or Minor Hall (the time and venues are
subject to confirmation), depending on your workshop group; full
details will follow later.
My office hours (to deal with individual questions) are: Tuesday 16.30–17.15 and Wednesday 12.00–12.30 in Fylde B20.
An enlarged version of these notes will be displayed in the lectures. The notes contain gaps which you are supposed to fill in. The full notes, as well as model solutions to exercises and all other course materials, are available from the course webpage.
Student Registry operates an archive of past exam papers, which can be found in the Maths Information section under Moodle. You may find these papers helpful when revising for the end-of-module test and exam.
Note that in the end-of-module test and exam, results will always be referred to by their name or some other means, never by their number (so you do not need to memorize the theorem numbers used in these notes).
Alcock, L., How to Study for a Mathematics Degree,
Oxford.
Durbin, J. R., Modern Algebra: an Introduction, Wiley.
Hamilton, A. G., Logic for Mathematicians, Cambridge.
Liebeck, M., A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics,
Chapman & Hall.
Wallace, D. A. R., Groups, Rings and Fields, Springer.
Whitehead, C., Guide to Abstract Algebra, Macmillan.