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Textbook:: Abstract Algebra: A First Course
Author:: Dan Saracino
Edition:: 2nd
Context:: MATH 3230, MATH 3231
When:: Fall 2024, Spring 2025
Depth:: Comprehensive
Sections:: Section 0-15 (3230), Section 16-26 (3231)
Content Covered
- Sets and Induction
- Binary Operations
- Groups
- Fundamental Theorems about Groups
- Powers of an Element; Cyclic Groups
- Subgroups
- Direct Products
- Functions
- Symmetric Groups
- Equivalence Relations; Cosets
- Counting the Elements of a Finite Group
- Normal Subgroups
- Homomorphisms
- Homomorphisms and Normal Subgroups
- Direct Products and Finite Abelian Groups
- Sylow Theorems
- Rings
- Subrings, Ideals, and Quotient Rings
- Ring Homomorphisms
- Polynomial
- From Polynomial to Fields
- Unique Factorization Domains