Anuj Jakhar
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Course Content


    Group Theory: Review of basic Group Theory, Direct sum and direct product of groups, Group Actions, Cayley's Theorem, The Class Equation, Sylow's Theorems (15 lectures)
    Ring Theory: Review of basic Ring Theory, Properties of Ideals, Prime and Maximal Ideals, Two-sided ideals and Quotient Rings, Chinese Reminder Theorem, Euclidean Domain, Euclidean Algorithm, Principal Ideal Domain, Euclidean Domain is a Principal Ideal Domain, UFD, PID implies UFD. (20 lectures)
    Field Theory: Field extensions, basic properties of degree of field extensions. (5 lectures)

Reference Books


  1. University Algebra (N S Gopalakrishnan)
  2. Abstract Algebra (Gallian)
  3. Abstract Algebra (Dummit & Foote)


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