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Due Tuesday, July 8th

This assignment is from Sections 1 and 2 on modular arithmetic and introductory concepts involving rings. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File or Adobe pdf file. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 1 p. 13 at end of notes
# 1a, 1c, 1d, 1f
# 2b, 2c
# 3b, 3c
# 4a

Section 2 p. 10 at end of notes
# 1b, # 1c, # 1e (on these, just state whether they are rings - you do not have to prove they satisfy all of the ring axioms)
# 2c # 2d
# 3b, #3c, #3e
# 4
# 6


Due Thursday, July 10th

This assignment is problems from Section 3 and 4 on integral domains and polynomial rings. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 3 p. 10 at end of notes
# 1a, 1d # 2a, 2e # 4 # 8 # 9

Section 4 p. 8 at end of notes
# 1d # 2a, #2f # 4
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Due Tuesday, September 11th

This assignment is from Sections 1 and 2 on modular arithmetic and introductory concepts involving rings. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File or Adobe pdf file. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 1 p. 13 at end of notes
# 1a, 1c, 1d, 1f
# 2b, 2c
# 3b, 3c
# 4a

Section 2 p. 10 at end of notes
# 1b, # 1c, # 1e (on these, just state whether they are rings - you do not have to prove they satisfy all of the ring axioms)
# 2c # 2d
# 3b, #3c, #3e
# 4
# 6
# 9a, #9b

Due Tuesday, September 18th

This assignment is problems from Section 3 and 4 on integral domains and polynomial rings.

Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 3 p. 10 at end of notes
# 1a, 1d # 2a, 2e # 4 # 8 # 9

Section 4 p. 8 at end of notes
# 1d # 2a, #2f # 4 # 6 # 9

Due Tuesday, September 25th

This HW will cover Section 5 on find the greatest common divisor of two polynomials. 

Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 5, p. 10 at end of notes # 1a, 1f, 2a, 2f, 3, 4

Due Tuesday, October 2nd

1. Written Homework

This homework covers Section 6 concerning irreducible polynomials. Due Tuesday, October 2nd. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File or Adobe Pdf File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 6 p. 14 at end of notes # 2c, 3, 4c, 7, 8a, 8b, 8e, 9c, 10b, 10c, 13, 15


Homework with Maplets. Due Tuesday, October 2nd in Class

Do the Exercises 1c, 1d, 2d, 2e, 3a, 3b, 4a, 4d, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b using Maplets for Sections 1, 4, and 5 located at the link (use Internet Explorer for Windows and Safari for a Mac)

http://maplenet.radford.edu:8080/maplenet/math623/

from the Word attachment maplemodgcdhomework.docx. You can hand this part of assignment in as a Microsoft Word file (or Adobe pdf file) and placing the file in the Desire2Learn submission drop box or by just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Attachment(s):
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Due Tuesday, October 9th

This homework covers Section 7 concerning  congruence class arithmetic using polynomials. Due Tuesday, October 9th in Class. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 7: p. 11 at end of notes # 1b, 2b, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 15
MIDTERM

Due Tuesday March 24th

This assignment is your midterm take home test.  On all of the following problems, please show all work (it is okay to use Maple to check answers, but Maple should not be a substitute for working the problems out).  Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me as an attachment at npsigmon@radford.edu. Since this is a take home test, no collaboration is allowed.

ma623midtermsp2015.doc(121 KB)
 

Due Tuesday, October 16th

This homework covers problems from Sections 8. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 8 p. 13 at the end of the notes # 1a, 1d, 2a, 2b, 3b, 5a, 5b, 6

Due Tuesday, October 30th

This homework covers problems from Sections 9 and 10. Submit your work as a Microsoft Word File or Adobe PDF. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 9: p. 9 # 1b, # 1c, #1d, # 1e,  # 2, # 3, # 4, # 5

Section 10: p. 11 # 1a, # 1c, # 2b, 2c

Due Tuesday, November 14th  in Class

This assignment covers Problems from Section 11 with an additional Maple assignment on Reed-Solomon Codes. Submit your handwritten work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu. For the Maple assignment, save the screenshot of your results as a Word file attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box or just email it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu

Section 11: p. 21 # 1, 2, 3, 5

Maplet Exercises For the Exercises in the Reed-Solomon Codes Maplet Exercises worksheet # 3, 4

Due Tuesday, November 28th

This assignment is problems from Section 12 and Section 13 plus a Maplet assignment on shift and affine ciphers. Submit your homework as a Word or pdf file by placing it in the D2L dropbox or emailing it me at npsigmon@radford.edu.

1. Section 12 p. 21 # 1a, 1c, 2a, 2b, 3b, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14b
2. Section 13 p. 16 # 2a, 2b, 3b, 4c, 4d

Maplet Assignment from Exercises at bottom of Maple Worksheet MapletExercisesforShiftandtAffineCiphers.doc

# 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 14

Due Tuesday, April 28th

This assignment is problems from Section 13 and Section 14.

Submit your handwritten work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu. 

Section 13 p. 16 # 2a, 2b, 3b, 4c, 4d, 5d, 6b, 6d, 7, 8, 9

Section 14 p. 17 # 3

Due Tuesday, November 28th

This assignment is problems from Section 12 and Section 13 plus a Maplet assignment on shift and affine ciphers. Submit your homework as a Word or pdf file by placing it in the D2L dropbox or emailing it me at npsigmon@radford.edu.

1. Section 12 p. 21 # 1a, 1c, 2a, 2b, 3b, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14b
2. Section 13 p. 16 # 2a, 2b, 3b, 4c, 4d

Maplet Assignment from Exercises at bottom of Maple Worksheet MapletExercisesforShiftandtAffineCiphers.doc

# 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 14

Due Tuesday, December 4th

This assignment is problems from Section 13 and Section 14.

Submit your handwritten work as a Microsoft Word File. You can hand this assignment in by placing it as an attachment in the Desire2Learn submission drop box for this assignment or just emailing it to me at npsigmon@radford.edu. 

Section 13 p. 16 # 5d, 6b, 6d, 7, 8, 9

Section 14 p. 17 # 3