Undergraduate Courses

MA 442, Algebraic Structures with Applications

Catalog Description

Mappings, binary operations, equivalence relations, groups and subgroups, Lagrange's theorem, homomorphisms and isomorphisms, normal subgroups and quotient groups, rings, fields, ordered integral domains, fields of quotients, error correcting codes, linear codes, and decoding.

Prerequisites

MA 244 and either MA 330 or MA 385.

Credit

3 Semester Hours

Grading System

This course is graded A, B, C, D, F. The grade typically depends on a combination of class tests, homework assignments, quizzes, and a comprehensive final exam.