The purpose of the course is to provide an introduction to abstract algebraic systems and to illustrate the concepts with engineering applications. Topics include symbolic logic; switching and logic circuits; set theory, equivalence relations and mappings; the integers and modular arithmetic; groups, cyclic groups, Lagrange's theorem, group quotients, group homomorphisms and isomorphisms; applications to error-control codes for noisy communication channels.
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 0.5)