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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2017
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MATH 563 001 (CRN: 10953)
ABSTRACT ALGEBRA II
Long Title: ABSTRACT ALGEBRA II
Department: Mathematics
Instructor: Etropolski, Anastassia
Meeting: 11:00AM - 11:50AM MWF (21-AUG-2017 - 1-DEC-2017)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Prerequisites: MATH 356
Section Max Enrollment: 27
Section Enrolled: 6
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 27
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 24
Waitlisted: 0 (Max 198)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2024 12:40AM
Final Exam: Scheduled Final Exam-OTR Room
Final Exam Time:
6-DEC-2017
9:00AM - 12:00PM W
Description: A first graduate course in Algebra. Advanced topics in group theory: semi-direct products, dual groups, inverse limits and completions. Galois Theory, including infinite Galois Extensions. Advanced topics in ring theory: radicals, local rings, primary decomposition, the prime spectrum of a ring. Groebner Bases; elimination theory. Modules: the Cayley-Hamilton Theorem and
Nakayama's lemma; localization and local properties; composition series and the Jordan-Hölder theorem; structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a PID. Tensor products: universal properties, multilinear algebra. Introduction to categories and functors. Cross-list: MATH 463. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for MATH 563 if student has credit for MATH 463.