Academic Catalog

MATH116 BASIC ALGEBRAIC STRUCTURES

Course Code: 2360116
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 4.5
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: Assist.Prof.Dr DÝLBER KOÇAK BENLÝ
Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Binary operations. Groups. subgroups. cyclic groups. Isomorphisms and homomorphisms. Finite permutation groups. Cosets. normal subgroups. quotient groups. Rings and subrings. Ideals and quotient rings. Ring isomorphisms. Integral domains and fields. The fields of real numbers and complex numbers. Polynomials over a ring. Divisibility and greatest common divisors. Factorization in the ring of polynomials over field. Zeroes of a polynomial.