Assignments

Fall 2026

Problem sets, released one per Q&A session. Each is scored on completeness, not correctness; AI and any other source is permitted, and you are asked to name what you used. Maximum six pages.

• Problem Set 1 — due Wednesday 16 September — Ash Ch. 1: groups through direct products
• Problem Set 2 — due Monday 5 October — Ash 2.1–2.6: rings, ideals, homomorphisms, quotients, polynomials
• Problem Set 3 — due Monday 2 November — Ash §2.7–§2.9, §3.1–§3.5, §6.4: Euclidean domains, fields, extensions and algebraic closure, finite fields