MAT 423-01 Tentative Schedule

Highlighted topic is coming up soon.
You should disregard this entirely; it's left over from a previous year, and I don't know how things will work this year.
 

Date

Topic
Jan 14-Feb 1 Sets, operations, functions, elementary logic
Chapter 1 of the book
Application: the RSA algorithm
Feb 4-Mar 7
 Structure 1: Groups
Chapter 2 of the book
Applications: the 15-puzzle, elliptic curve cryptography
Mar 10-Apr 4
 Structure 2: Rings
Chapter 3 of the book
Apr 7-Apr 25 Structure 3: Polynomial rings
Chapter 4 of the book
Apr 28-May 2 Structure 4: Gröbner bases
Chapter 5 of the book