Instructor: David Nadler

Office Hours: by appointment, 815 Evans.

Lectures: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2-3:30pm, 241 Cory.

Class notes (November 15, 2018):

• Abhishek
• Ray
• Kimball and Tae Hyung

Course number: 22417

Prerequisites: Math 114 or equivalent familiarity with abstract algebra.

Text: Lang, Algebra.

Other resources: Paulin's notes.

Syllabus: Group theory, including the Jordan-Holder theorem and the Sylow theorems. Basic theory of rings and their ideals. Unique factorization domains and principal ideal domains. Modules. Chain conditions. Fields, including fundamental theorem of Galois theory, theory of finite fields, and transcendence degree.

Homeworks: Unless otherwise noted, chapters and exercises are from the course text: Lang, Algebra.

1. Unit 1: Groups (Ch I)
   1. Some category theory (I.10-I.12). Exercises: I, #49, 50, 52. Prove the Yoneda Lemma.
   2. Groups and group actions (I.1-I.5). Exercises: I, #15, 16, 18, 19, 33, 37, 38, 39, 46, 47, 48, 55.
   3. Finite groups, Sylow subgroups (I.4-I.6). Exercises: I, #2, 6, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 41.
   4. Abelian groups (I.7-1.9). Exercises: I, #1, 7, 24, 26, 36, 42, 43, 44.
2. Unit 2: Representations of finite groups (Ch XVIII)
   1. Linear algebra background (XIII.1-XIII.6, XIV.1-XIV.3, XVI.1, XVI.2). Exercises: XIII, #1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14; XIV, #3, 4, 8, 12, 13, 14.
   2. Basics of group representations (XVIII.1-XVIII.7). Exercises: XVIII, #1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 15, 16.
   3. GL(2, F_q) (XVIII.12). Exercises: XVIII, #10, 11, 12.

Evaluation: There will be weekly homework, a midterm and a final exam.

Midterm 1, Tuesday, September 18.

Focus: Category theory.

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