Duration:
Number of lectures per week: 3

Assessment: Continuous assessment through four short examinations spread over the academic year.

End-of-year Examination: No annual examination. Those who fail through continuous assessment must take a supplemental examination (in September)

Description: Introduction to groups.
Functions, homomorphisms, quotient groups.
Introduction to rings and fields.
Introduction to linear algebra.

Textbooks: John R. Durbin, Modern algebra - an introduction
John B. Fraleigh, A first course in abstract algebra

May 6, 1999