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M. Atiyah, I. Macdonald, Introduction to Commutative Algebra; Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1969.
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Type of Assessment
Oral
Course program
(I) Galois Theory
Survey of basic Galois Theory: algebraic field extensions, normal extensions, separable extensions.
Splitting fileds. Galois correspondence.
Artin's theorem. Primitive element theorem. Dedekind's theorem (linear independence of field automorphsims). Normal basis theorem. Natural irrationalities theorem. Algebraic closures.
Cyclotomic fields. Gauss' theorem.
Purely inseparable field extensions.
Automorphism groups of cyclic groups. Structure of finitely generated abelian groups.
Dirichlet's theorem.
Series in groups. Solvable groups. Simplicity of alternating groups A_n, n >4.
Kummer's theory.
Solvability of equations by radicals.
(II) Commutative Algebra
Rings; Modules.
Exactness. Tensor products of modules and algebras.
Restrictions and extensions of ideals. Torsion free modules; projective modules. Modules over PID.
Rings and modules of fractions.
Primary decomposition of ideals.
Integral dependence. Going-up and going-down theorems. Integral basis theorem.