Lecture Notes

These notes have been reorganized because I lost count of the lectures at some point, and do not reflect the exact sequence or breadth of topics covered in class.

  • ALG2_L1
    • Groups, examples of groups, subgroups
  • ALG2_L2
    • Symmetric groups, homomorphisms
  • ALG2_L3
    • Cosets, Lagrange’s theorem, quotient groups, normal subgroups
  • ALG2_L4
    • Isomorphisms, automorphisms and conjugation, first isomorphism theorem
  • ALG2_L5
    • Correspondence Theorem
  • ALG2_L6
    • Product of groups, third isomorphism theorem, Chinese remainder theorem
  • ALG2_L7
    • Double cosets, group actions
  • ALG2_L8
    • Orbit, stabilizer, kernel, groups acting on themselves, centralizer, normalizer, second isomorphism theorem
  • ALG2_L9
    • Orbit-stabilizer theorem, the class equation, p-groups, conjugacy in , more on automorphisms
  • ALG2_L10
    • Semidirect product
  • ALG2_L11
    • Sylow’s theorems, proofs from Herstein
  • ALG2_L12
    • Simplicity of
  • ALG2_L13
    • Free groups
  • ALG2_L14
    • Free abelian groups
  • ALG2_L15
    • Linear operators
  • ALG2_L16
    • Symmetries

Group theory questions

Other notes

Normalizers and Conjugacy
Finding all subgroups of S4
Group of units mod n is cyclic
Dummit and Foote Solutions

Assessments

ALG2_Q1
ALG2_Q2
ALG2_EndSem

Tutorials

ALG2_T4


to do

  • Review midsem
  • Review all tuts
  • Review all notes
  • Solve Sunaina’s PS
  • Ask Titan for probs (proof using Cayley)
  • Dummit: CHapter 4 and 5
  • Artin: relevant stuff from chapter 5, 6
  • past endsems

???

  • midsem 10