Lead Faculty: Dr. Igor Yakov Subbotin

Prerequisite
MTH 325 and MTH 435

Course Description
A look at groups, rings and fields, as well as applications of these systems. Discusses equivalence relations, Lagrange's Theorem, homomorphisms, isomorphisms, Cayley's Theorem and quaternions. Also examines error correcting codes and issues of cryptography. Graphing calculator may be required.