Academic Catalog

MATH503 ALGEBRA I

Course Code: 2360503
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assoc.Prof.Dr. EBRU SOLAK
Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Groups quotient groups, isomorphism theorems, alternating and dihedral groups, direct products, free groups, generators and relations, free abelian groups, actions. Sylow theorems, nilpotent and solvable groups, normal and subnormal series. Rings, ring homomorphisms, ideals, factorization in commutative rings, rings of quotients, localization, principle ideal domains, Eucladian domains, unique factorization domains, polynomials and formal power series, factorization in polynomial rings.