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.