Overview

Date, time, location This course is unusual in that it stretches over periods 2 and 3 of 2015/16, i.e. from November 2015 to March 2016.

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 Monday Nov 2, 13:15 – 15:00 in D34.

Lecturer First part: Mats Boij

Second part: Roy Skjelnes

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

Abstract Algebra by Dummit and Foote

Errata for the 3rd edition

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