Abstract Algebra
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[Course Notes]
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... [Table of Contents]
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(thanks to Iver Walkoe!) ... [ Index]
Miscellaneous notes ... not inside course notes
- [Girard-Newton formulas]
sums-of-powers in terms of elementary symmetric functions
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(updated Tue, 19 Jan 10, 05:19 PM)
- [Half-exactness of adjoint
functors, Yoneda lemma]
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(updated Wed, 10 Dec 08, 02:58 PM)
- [Cantor-Schroeder-Bernstein theorem]
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(updated Sat, 19 Feb 05, 01:50 PM)
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[Simple algebras and involutions ]
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(updated Sat, 19 Feb 05, 01:50 PM)
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[Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt theorem ]
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(updated Fri, 08 Apr 11, 02:05 PM)
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[Cech vs. derived-functor sheaf cohomology]
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(updated Sat, 19 Feb 05, 02:00 PM)
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[Homology and derived functors ]
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(updated Tue, 14 Jun 11, 06:17 PM)
Solutions to standard exercises:
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Course notes
... individual chapters from notes linked-to above:
- 01 the integers: unique
factorization, integers mod m, Fermat's little theorem, Sun-Ze's
theorem, examples.
- 02 groups I: subgroups, Lagrange's
theorem, homomorphisms, kernels, normal subgroups, cyclic groups,
quotient groups, groups acting on sets, Sylow theorems, worked examples
- 03 the players: rings, fields, etc:
homomorphisms, vectorspaces, modules, algebras, polynomial rings I
- 04 commutative rings I: divisibility
and ideals, polynomials in one variable over a field, ideals and
quotients, maximal ideals and fields, prime ideals and domains,
Fermat-Euler on sums of two squares, examples
- 05 linear algebra I: dimension,
bases, homomorphisms
- 06 fields I: adjoining things,
fields of fractions, fields of rational functions, characteristics,
finite fields, algebraic field extensions, algebraic closures
- 07 some irreducible polynomials:
over a finite field, examples
- 08 cyclotomic polynomials: multiple
factors in polynomials, finite subgroups of fields, infinitude of
primes p=1 mod n, examples
- 09 finite fields: uniqueness,
Frobenius automorphism, counting irreducibles
- 10 modules over PIDs: structure
theorem, variations, finitely-generated abelian groups, Jordan
canonical form, conjugacy versus k[x]-module isomorphism, examples
- 11 finitely-generated modules: free
modules, finitely-generated modules over a domain, PIDs are UFDs,
structure theorem (again), submodules of free modules
- 12 polynomials over UFDs: Gauss'
lemma, fields of fractions, examples
- 13 symmetric groups: cycles,
disjoint cycle decomposition, transpositions, examples
- 14 naive set theory: sets, posets,
ordinals, transfinite induction, finiteness/infiniteness, comparison
of infinities, transfinite Lagrange replacement, equivalents of the
Axiom of Choice
- 15 symmetric polynomials:
discriminants, examples
- 16 Eisenstein's criterion: examples
- 17 Vandermonde determinants: examples
- 18 cyclotomic polynomials II: over
the integers, examples
- 19 roots of unity: cyclotomic
fields, solutions in radicals, Lagrange resolvents, quadratic
fields, quadratic reciprocity, examples
- 20 cyclotomy III: prime power
cyclotomic polynomials over the rationals, irreducibility,
factoring, examples
- 21 primes in arithmetic
progressions: Euler and the zeta function, Dirichlet's theorem, dual
groups of abelian groups, non-vanishing on the line Re(s)=1,
analytic continuations, Dirichlet series with positive coefficients
- 22 Galois theory: field extensions,
imbeddings, automorphisms, separable field extensions, primitive
elemenets, normal extensions, Galois' theorem, conjugates, trace,
norm, examples
- 23 solution by radicals: Galois'
criterion, composition series, Jordan-Holder theorem, solving cubics
by radicals, examples
- 24 eigenvectors, eigenvalues,
spectral theorems: diagonalizability, semi-simplicity, commuting
endomorphisms ST=TS, inner product spaces, projections without
coordinates, unitary operators, spectral theorems, corollaries, examples
- 25 duality, naturality, bilinear
forms: dual vectorspaces, examples of naturality, bilinear forms, examples
- 26 determinants I: prehistory,
definitions, uniqueness, existence
- 27 tensor products: desiderata,
uniqueness, existence, tensor products of maps, extension of
scalars, functoriality, naturality, examples
- 28 exterior algebra: desiderata,
uniqueness, existence, exterior powers of free modules, determinants
revisited, minors of matrices, uniqueness in the structure theorem,
Cartan's lemma, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, examples
Elementary exercises and notes:
[Intro to Abstract Algebra]
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