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.
