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M.S. Algebra Syllabus
    Group Theory
    • Subgroups, Lagrange's theorem
    • Normal subgroups, quotient groups
    • Isomorphism theorems, permutation groups, simplicity of An
    • Cyclic groups, direct products (sums)
    • Finitely-generated Abelian groups, p-groups, Sylow theorems
    Vector Spaces and Modules
    • Submodules, quotient modules, isomorphism theorems
    • Linear independence, bases, linear operators, homomorphisms
    • Rank, determinant, finitely-generated modules over PID's
    • Bilinear and quadratic forms
    • Inner product spaces, orthogonality (Gram-Schmidt)
    • Dual spaces, determinants, characteristic & minimal polynomials
    • Eigenvalues and eigenvectors, Cayley-Hamilton theorem
    • Canonical forms (triangular, rational, Jordan)
    Rings
    • Subrings, ideals, quotient rings, isomorphism theorems
    • Arithmetic of Z and Zn (Fermat's theorem, Chinese Remainder theorem)
    • Integral domains and quotient fields
    • Prime and maximal ideals, euclidean rings, PID's and UFD's
    • Polynomial rings, Gauss' lemma
    Fields
    • Finite and algebraic extentions, Galois extensions
    • Simple extensions, finite fields
    • Galois theory (in characteristic 0), geometric constructions
    • Solvability by radicals
  References
Birkhoff & MacLane: A Survey of Modern Algebra
Fraleigh: A First Course in Abstract Algebra
Herstein: Topics in Algebra
Hungerford: Algebra



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