MAT 487 Spring 2018 Problem Sets |
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Course Announcements Announcements about the course will be posted here. Please check the site regularly for announcements (which will also be given in lecture).
Course Description The description in the undergraduate bulletin. A reading course for juniors and seniors. The topics may be chosen by the student with the approval of a supervising member of the faculty, who also takes responsibility for evaluation. A topic that is covered in a course regularly offered by the department is not appropriate for independent study. May be repeated. This independent study course will be focused on commutative ring theory and foundations of algebraic geometry.
Prerequisites Permission of the undergraduate director.
Text The recommended textbooks are the following.
Lectures The instructor for this course is Jason Starr.
Course meetings are Wednesday mornings, beginning at 9:30AM, in Math Tower 4-108.
Office Hours Office hours for Jason Starr are tentatively scheduled as follows.
Grading System The letter grade for the course is based on class participation, weekly problem sets, and a final oral report.
Oral presentation
Every student will give an oral report of approximately 20
minutes in
the last few weeks of the semester. The topic of the
presentation is to be determined by the student and instructor
jointly. It may be on anything related to the course, but not directly
covered during course meetings or on problem sets,
e.g., a skipped section of the textbook, an interesting sequence
of (unassigned) textbook problems, related material from another
textbook, etc. The topic should be discussed with the instructor and
approved no later than April 15th.
Hand-backs Graded problem sets will be handed back during course meetings. Some fraction of course meetings will be devoted to discussing solutions to assigned problem sets.
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teaching syllabi (graduate and undergraduate courses) on the Stony
Brook Campus.
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any, are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation
is confidential.
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