Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

The module aims to: consider topics in the 19th Century history of abstract algebra and number theory; discuss what was taken to be so important about them.

Principal learning outcomes

To develop a critical sense of what was, and even what is, important and exciting about mathematics and its evolution; To raise questions about the nature of mathematics and its relation both to abstract thought and to its applications in classical physics.

Departmental link

http://go.warwick.ac.uk/MA3E5/

Other essential notes

Prerequisites: Familiarity with concepts from algebra as presented in MA249 Algebra II is highly desirable, but not essential; an acquaintance with MA246 Number Theory would help but is not required.

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
15 CATS (Module code: MA3E5-15)
A (Assessed work only)	500 word essay	14%
	1500 word essay	26%
	2000 word essay	60%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

N/A

Optional

• Undergraduate Mathematics (MMath) with Study in Europe (G106) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics (G4G1) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics with Intercalated Year (G4G2) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics (G4G3) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Physics (with Intercalated Year) (GF14) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Economics (with Intercalated Year) (GL12) - Year 4