MATH504 ALGEBRA II

Course Code:2360504
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (3.00 - 0.00)
ECTS Credit:8.0
Department:Mathematics
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Graduate
Course Coordinator:Prof.Dr. MEHPARE BİLHAN
Offered Semester:Fall Semesters.

Course Objectives

This is the first part of a classical graduate algebra course that covers some basic concepts in the theory of modules and fields.

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Course Content

Modules; homomorphisms, exact sequences., projective and injective modules, free modules, vector spaces, tensor products, modules over a PID. Fields, field extensions, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory, splitting fields, algebraic closure and normality, the Galois group of a polynomial, finite fields.


Course Learning Outcomes