14-1100

DBN: Classes: 2014-15: 14-1100/Navigation Welcome to Math 1100! (additions to this web site no longer count towards good deed points) # Week of... Notes and Links 1 Sep 8 About This Class; Monday - Non Commutative Gaussian Elimination; Thursday - the category of groups, automorphisms and conjugations, images and kernels. 2 Sep 15 Monday - coset spaces, isomorphism theorems; Thursday - simple groups, Jordan-Holder decomposition series. 3 Sep 22 Monday - alternating groups, group actions, The Simplicity of the Alternating Groups, HW1, HW 1 Solutions, Class Photo; Thursday - group actions, Orbit-Stabilizer Thm, Class Equation. 4 Sep 29 Monday - Cauchy's Thm, Sylow 1; Thursday - Sylow 2. 5 Oct 6 Monday - Sylow 3, semi-direct products, braids; HW2; HW 2 Solutions; Thursday - braids, groups of order 12, Braids 6 Oct 13 No class Monday (Thanksgiving); Thursday - groups of order 12 cont'd. 7 Oct 20 Term Test; Term Test Solutions on Monday, HW3; HW 3 Solutions; Thursday - solvable groups, rings: defn's & examples. 8 Oct 27 Monday - functors, Cayley-Hamilton Thm, ideals, iso thm 1; Thursday - iso thms 2-4, integral domains, maximal ideals, One Theorem, Three Corollaries, Five Weeks 9 Nov 3 Monday - prime ideals, primes & irreducibles, UFD's, Euc.Domain$\Rightarrow$PID, Thursday - Noetherian rings, PID$\Rightarrow$UFD, Euclidean Algorithm, modules: defn & examples, HW4, HW 4 Solutions 10 Nov 10 Monday - R is a PID iff R has a D-H norm, R-modules, direct sums, every f.g. module is given by a presentation matrix, Thursday - row & column reductions plus, existence part of Thm 1 in 1t3c5w handout. 11 Nov 17 Monday-Tuesday is UofT's Fall Break, HW5, Thursday - 1t3c5w handout cont'd, JCF Tricks & Programs handout 12 Nov 24 Monday - JCF Tricks & Programs cont'd, tensor products, Thursday - tensor products cont'd 13 Dec 1 End-of-Course Schedule; Monday - tensor products finale, extension/reduction of scalars, uniqueness part of Thm 1 in 1t3c5w, localization & fields of fractions; Wednesday is a "makeup Monday"!; Notes for Studying for the Final Exam Glossary of terms F Dec 15 The Final Exam Register of Good Deeds Add your name / see who's in! See Non Commutative Gaussian Elimination

Core Algebra I

Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto, Fall 2014

Agenda: Groups, rings, modules.

Course Highlights: We'll solve the Rubik's cube! We'll understand many groups of small order! We'll understand "Modules over PIDs"! We'll know that the quintic can't be solved!

Instructor: Dror Bar-Natan, drorbn@math.toronto.edu, Bahen 6178, 416-946-5438. Office hours: by appointment.

Classes: Mondays 1-3 and Thursdays 1-2 in Bahen 6183.

Teaching Assistant: Louis-Philippe Thibault, lp.thibault@mail.utoronto.ca.

Texts

Lang's Algebra, Selick's lecture notes for this class, Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra, Hungerford's Abstract Algebra.

Further Resources

• Graduate Studies at the UofT Math Department. In particular, Graduate Course Descriptions.

• My 14-1100 notebook.

• My 2011 Class.

• My 2010 Class.

• Paul Selick's 2007 class (Errata).

• Some (mostly complete) notes from last year's class: 10-1100-Notes.

Dror's notes above / Student's notes below