MATH2070B - Algebraic Structures - 2020/21

Announcement

• Zoom Meeting ID: 928 0102 9531, password: 207207
• This course will be mainly administered at blackboard.cuhk.edu.hk. Go there for more information.

General Information

Lecturer

• YU Jiu-Kang
  • Office: 411 AB1
  • Tel: 3943-3716
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Teaching Assistant

• SHEN Jianhao
  • Office: 407B AB1
  • Tel: 3943-3720
  • Email:
• WONG Siu Fung
  • Office: 407B AB1
  • Tel: 3943-3720
  • Email:

Course Description

This course is intended as an introduction to modern abstract algebra and the algebraic way of thinking in advanced mathematics. The course focuses on basic algebraic concepts which arise in various areas of advanced mathematics, and emphasizes on the underlying algebraic structures which are common to various concrete mathematical examples.

Topics include: • Group Theory - examples of groups including permutation and dihedral groups, subgroups, the Theorem of Lagrange, group homomorphisms. • Ring Theory - examples of rings including the ring of integers and polynomial rings, integral domains, fields, ring homomorphisms, ideals and quotient rings. • Field Theory - examples of field extensions and finite fields.

Textbooks

• J. Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, 7th edition, Pearson
• M. Artin: Algebra, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall

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