Algebra Graduate Courses

MATH245A

Overview

Subject: Math
Course Number: 245A
Department: Mathematics
Course Level: Graduate

Course Title

General Theory of Algebraic Structures

Course Description

Structures defined by operations and/or relations, and their homomorphisms. Classes of structures determined by identities. Constructions such as free objects, objects presented by generators and relations, ultraproducts, direct limits. Applications of general results to groups, rings, lattices, etc. Course may emphasize study of congruence- and subalgebra-lattices, or category-theory and adjoint functors, or other aspects.

Units

Minimum Units: 4
Maximum Units: 4

Prior Terms Offered