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| | Graduate Study in Algebra |
 | | The "symmetric" groups of all permutations of a set are investigated, and the Cayley theorem (showing an arbitrary abstract group may be regarded as a subgroup of some symmetric group) is proved. |
 | | The goal of the course is the fundamental theorem of Galois theory and the solutions to the three pearls of antiquity: the quadrature of the circle, the trisection of an angle, and the duplication of the cube. |
 | | The following topics are studied: the isomorphism theorems for groups, solvability of p-groups, simplicity of the alternating group on at least 5 letters, Sylow theorems, Jordan-Holder Theorem, principal ideal domains, Gauss' lemma, Eisenstein's criterion, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory, finite fields, cyclotomic fields, solvability of equations by radicals. |
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