Overview

News

Homework 6 due December 18

Class is cancelled this week 3/4 Dec due to sickness. There is, however, Homework due December 11

Homework 4 due December 3

Date, time, location

This course is unusual in that it stretches over periods 2 and 3 of 2014/15, i.e. from November 2014 to March 2015.

There is one lecture and one exercise session every week, on varying days, times, and locations. The precise schedule can be found here.

The first lecture of Part I is on Tue Nov 4, 08:15 – 10:00 in M32.

Lecturer

First part: T. Bauer

Second part: W. Chachólski

Course content

Group theory: groups, permutations, symmetry, homomorphisms, group actions, Sylow theorems

Ring theory: rings, ideals, fields, principal ideals and unique factorization, modules, finitely generated modules over PIDs

Prerequisites

SF1604 Linear algebra or an equivalent course

Literature

David S. Dummit, Richard M. Foote, Abstract Algebra, 3rd edition, Wiley

Errata for the 3rd edition

For the last two lectures, there are also some course notes.