ALGEBRA 2

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in MATHEMATICS
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2023/2024
Year: 
2
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2024/2025
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
8
Period: 
First Semester
Standard lectures hours: 
68
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (56 hours), Exercise (12 hours)
Requirements: 

The content of the courses Linear Algebra and Algebra 1

Final Examination: 
Orale

Written test (problems and open questions on the theory, 2 hours) and oral examination.

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

To deepen the study of algebraic structures such as groups, rings and modules. This will be applied to the study of the canonical forms of matrices, and to the classification of finite abelian groups,.

After a first part which deals with quotients of vector spaces, the course focuses on the study of algebraic structures endowed with two operations: rings, algebras, modules, and fields.
Program.
- Linear algebra: quotients and morphisms of vector spaces
- Rings: definitions and basic results, examples, substructures, ideals, quotients and morphisms.
- Commutative rings: irreducible and prime elements, Chinese remainder Theorem, UFDs and PIDs, polynomial rings and factorization.
- Fields and extensions (basic definitions and examples).
- Modules: definitions and basic results.
- Classifications of finitely generated modules on PIDs, finitely generated abelian groups, Jordan canonical form, Cayley-Hamilton Theorem.

- Linear algebra: quotients and morphisms of vector spaces
- Rings: definitions and basic results, examples, substructures, ideals, quotients and morphisms.
- Commutative rings: irreducible and prime elements, Chinese remainder Theorem, UFDs and PIDs, polynomial rings and factorization.
- Fields and extensions (basic definitions and examples).
- Modules: definitions and basic results.
- Classifications of finitely generated modules on PIDs, finitely generated abelian groups, Jordan canonical form, Cayley-Hamilton Theorem.

Lessons and exercises

The reception with the teacher is by appointment: contact at claudio.quadrellił@uninsubria.it