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Algebra: Chapter 0

Paolo Aluffi

About the book

The book introduces algebra from the ground up by introducing category theory and describing concepts through its lens. This reading group was set up and run by Aniket Mishra; the sessions were held on Google Meet and were not recorded.

Prerequisites

No mandatory prerequisites, but a degree of mathematical maturity helps.

Planned sessions

  1. 10 May Preliminaries: Set theory and Categories A quick introduction to basic elements of naive set theory and categories
  2. 17 May Groups, first encounter Yet to be filled
  3. 24 May Rings and modules, Part I Yet to be filled
  4. 31 May Rings and modules, Part II Yet to be filled
  5. 7 Jun Groups, second encounter Yet to be filled
  6. 14 Jun Irreducibility and factorisation in integral domains Yet to be filled
  7. 21 Jun Linear Algebra, Part I Yet to be filled
  8. 28 Jun Linear Algebra, Part II Yet to be filled
  9. 5 Jul Fields, Part I Yet to be filled
  10. 12 Jul Fields, Part II Yet to be filled
  11. 19 Jul Linear Algebra, Reprise Part I Yet to be filled
  12. 26 Jul Linear Algebra, Reprise Part II Yet to be filled