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Students can view the scores of homework on-line (please note that you will have to log in).After that all grades will become final and cannot be changed. Students can consult their final in my office on Friday, Dec 19, at 2 pm.The final grades will be available on this web page on Friday, Dec 19, by noon.I have made available a mock Final to practice. The final will be held on Thursday, Dec 19, at 1.30 pm, in the regular classroom.I will be available all afternoon in my office on Tuesday (Dec 17) and Wednesday (Dec 18), the days before the final. There will be no office hours the week Dec 9-13.The last day of instruction for this class is Friday, Dec.Your final grade is obtained from the total score by applying the following curve: Your total score (TS) for the course is obtained by the formula 1.5*HW+MT1+MT2+MT3+3*FE (maximum 750), so that homework is worth 20%, midterms 40% and final exam 40%. Note that the grades of the best 10 homeworks, midterms and final exam is an integer less or equal to 100. A graph with the grades of the final is available here. You can find the grades of the final exam on-line.Emergency information for students in Mathematics courses.In practice, ability to understand and write proofs. Prerequisites: Officially either MATH 416 or one of MATH 410, MATH 415 together with one of MATH 347, MATH 348, CS 373 or consent of instructor. Office Hours: Mondays and Fridays 1.30-2.30 pm (or by appointment) Ĭlass meets: MWF 11:00-11:50 am, 341 Altgeld Hall With the passage of time, the term al-jabr or algebra became synonymous of the general study of equations and operations on them.Īlgebra is one of the pillars of Mathematics and this course gives an introduction to the basics of Algebra, including conceptual proofs of all main results. The term al-jabr is used in this book to denote two procedures: (i) the sum of two positive quantities to both sides of an equation, in order to cancel negative terms and (ii) the multiplication of both sides of an equation by a positive number to cancel fractions. 'The Compendious Book on Calculation by al-jabr and al-muqabala'. The origin of the term 'Algebra' seems to go back to a IX Century treaty by an Arab mathematician with the title Your grade will be based on the following rubric:Īcademic dishonesty is considered a serious offense at Emory.Math 417 - Introduction to Abstract Algebra - Fall 2019Īlgebra is the study of operations, rules and procedures to solve equations.

Homework assignments are available here, on the Additionally, you must write the names of students you worked You are welcome (encouraged!) to work with others on your homeworkĪssignments, however everyone must individually write up the draft they They will be assigned on Monday and collected the following Monday. Homework: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course. Note that I am bound toĮspecially with regard to the final which I cannot move for any reason.Ĭalculators will be allowed on the exams, but will not be necessary. The final will be cumulative and will be held Thursday,ĩth, 4:30-7PM. The midterms will be held on October 8th, and November 12thĭuring lecture. There will be two midterm exams and one final exam for theĬourse.
SOU EDU MATH 361 SYLLABUS TEXTBOOK PLUS
Topics include distribution models (binomial, geometric, uniform, normal, Poisson, and exponential), the Chebyshev inequality, expectation, moment generating functions, the central limit theorem plus applications. Will deal primarily with continuous probability theory. From theĬourse Atlas: After an overview of finite probability theory, the course Mathematical probability, while 362 focuses on statistics. Textbook: Introduction to Mathematical Statitstics, by Hogg, McKean and Craig.ģ61 is the first course of a two semester sequence.

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Math 361, Probability and Statistics I, SyllabusĮmail: phorn (at) mathcs dot emory dot edu
