| CODE | MAT2113 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Rings | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Mathematics | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | - Axioms, examples of and elementary results on rings; - Division rings, integral domains and fields; - Ideals, quotient rings; - Factorisation in rings; - Prime and irreducible elements; - Euclidean rings; - Unique factorisation; - Applications to some simple results in number theory; - The ring of polymomials. Textbooks - Herstein I.N., Topics in Algebra, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd Edition, 1996. - Cameron P.J., Introduction to Algebra, Oxford University Press, 1998 |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Follows from: MAT1115 | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | John B. Gauci |
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