Date, time, location
This course is unusual in that it stretches over periods 2 and 3 of 2013/14, i.e. from November 2013 to March 2014.
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 5, 08:15 – 10:00 in D41.
The first lecture of Part II is on Mon Jan 20, 13:15 – 15:00 in L51.
The exam is on Wed Mar 19, 14:00 – 19:00.
Lecturer
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.
