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University of Toronto Mississauga

MAT401H5

Polynomial Equations and Fields

Other courses coded MAT401 →

Credit0.50
Prerequisite1 requirement, 1 options
Total contact hours36 lecture · 12 tutorial
Evidence1 syllabus · 1 papers
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MAT401H5

What do I need?

These are the weights from the syllabus we have. Yours might be a bit different depending on your term and instructor, so feel free to change anything that doesn't match.

AssessmentGrade %Weight %
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You need 80.0% across the remaining 100% to finish at 80%.

What was the average?

Not reported

No student has contributed a result for this offering yet.

How is it graded?

2 components

From the 2025 syllabus. 2 graded components.

How confident is this?

Unknown

A small number of terms, so read it as a range.

From the calendar

Official source · University of Toronto Mississauga

Commutative rings; quotient rings. Construction of the rationals. Polynomial algebra. Fields and Galois theory: Field extentions, adjunction of roots of a polynomial. Constructibiliy, trisection of angles, construction of regular polygons. Galois groups of polynomials, in particular cubics, quartics. Insolvability of quintics by radicals.

Exclusions
MAT347Y1MAT401H1MATD01H3
Contact hours
36 lecture · 12 tutorial
Total scheduled hours for the course, not per week.

Any one of these

MAT224H5 and MAT240H5 and MAT236H5 and MAT257Y5 and MAT301H5

Where the marks come from

2025 syllabus
Students will complete the test · 85%Students will answer selected test · 15%

Extracted from a published 2025 syllabus by deterministic parser. Components that could not be labelled are shown unresolved rather than folded into a neighbouring category.

How well we know this course

2023–2025

Pyko’s archive holds 2 documents for MAT401H5, across 2 years between 2023 and 2025.

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Final exams
1
Syllabi

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What we don’t have yet

A course averageNo term has been reported for this offering. Averages come from students who contribute their own results, and nobody has yet.
Instructor-level detailAverages are not split by instructor. At these sample sizes the difference between sections is noise, not signal.

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Course description, prerequisites, exclusions, contact hoursUniversity of Toronto Mississauga2026-07-25public fact
Assessment weightingCourse syllabus, 20252026-07-25summary permitted
2 archived documents, 2023-2025Pyko archive2026-07-25index only

Page last verified 2026-07-25. A claim whose source moves is withdrawn before it goes stale.

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