Die Unterrichtssprache ist vorwiegend Englisch, Fragen dürfen auch auf Deutsch gestellt werden.  

Lectures are on Tuesday (8:30-10:00 in IA 1/177) and Thursday (12:15-13:45 in IA 1/75)

The course will be a first lecture course in algebra, it will consist of five parts: 

  • Group theory: symmetric group, alternating group, classification of finite groups, Sylow theorems, structure of finite groups.
  • Ring theory: Integral domains (rings with commutative multiplication, no non-trivial zero divisors), 
    Euclidean domains, principal ideal domains, unique factorisation (in particular in rings of polynomials), the quotient field of an integral domain
  • Field extensions: towards subfields or towards fields containing a given field. Simple extensions, 
    algebraic extensions. Galois theory: fundamental theorem, Galois extensions, solvability.
  • Module theory: modules over principal ideal domains, simple modules, torsion modules. 

Potential further courses: 

  • Representation theory
  • Homological algebra
  • Commutative algebra
  • Quiver representations
  • etc.
Semester: WiSe 2026/27