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