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===Texts===
 
===Texts===
Lang's ''Algebra'', Selick's [http://www.math.toronto.edu/mat1100/ lecture notes for this class], Dummit and Foote's ''Abstract Algebra'', Hungerford's ''Abstract Algebra''.
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Lang's ''Algebra'', Selick's [http://www.math.toronto.edu/mat1100/ lecture notes for this class], Dummit and Foote's ''Abstract Algebra'', Hungerford's ''Abstract Algebra''. My son Assaf (a math student in another university) recommends also [http://hpmor.com/ Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality].
  
 
===Further Resources===
 
===Further Resources===

Revision as of 07:24, 10 September 2014


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
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. My son Assaf (a math student in another university) recommends also Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

Further Resources

  • Some (mostly complete) notes from last year's class: 10-1100-Notes.
Dror's notes above / Student's notes below