BASIC ALGEBRA
Summer 2003 -- May-July 2003

Instructor                   D. P. Patil
Days/Time                   Monday ; Wednesday ; Friday / 11:00 - 13:00
Venue                          Lecture Hall 1, Department of Mathematics

                Note the change in the timings




Lecture  1      (May 02, 2003)     Rings
Lecture  2      (May 05, 2003)     Rings -- Continued --Prime rings
Lecture  3      (May 07, 2003)     Modules
Lecture  4      (May 09, 2003)     Submodules -- Generating Systems, minimal generating systems
Lecture  5      (May 12, 2003)     Set Theory -- Zorn's lemma and applications
Lecture  6      (May 14, 2003)     Ideals, Submodules -- Maximal ideals, maximal submodules, Krull's theorem
Lecture  7      (May 16, 2003)     Linear equations  -- Gauss Elimination
Lecture  8      (May 19, 2003)     Linear independence, Bases, Free Modules -- Bases of vector spaces, Dimension of vector spaces
Lecture  9      (May 21, 2003)   Rank of free modules over commutative rings
Lecture  10    (May 23, 2003)   Algebras over commutative rings
Lecture  11    (May 26, 2003)   Homomorphisms of rings and modules 
Lecture  12    (May 28, 2003)   Isomorphism theorem for rings --Comaximal ideals, Chinese remainder theorem
Lecture  13    (May 30, 2003)  Quotient rings -- Real number fields
Lecture  14    (June  02, 2003)  Homomorphisms of modules -- Rank theorem, Quotient modules, Isomorphism theorems  
Lecture  15    (June  05, 2003)  

Exercise Set 1        (May 02, 2003)    Rings
Exercise Set 2        (May 07, 2003)      Rings -- Continued -- Prime rings
Exercise Set 3        (May 12, 2003)     Modules -- Submodules, Ideals
Exercise Set 4        (May 19, 2003)       Linear Equations,  Linear independence, Bases -- Dimensions of vector spaces
Exercise Set 4A     (May 23, 2003)     Continued --- Free modules with rank
Exercise Set 5        (May 30, 2003)    Algebras, Free Algebras
Exercise Set 5A     (May 30, 2003)    Structure constants of an algebra --Quaternion algebras                                                                
Exercise Set 6        (July 16, 2003)    Homomorphisms of rings                                                                
Exercise Set 7        (July 16, 2003)    Homomorphisms modules