Modules, homomorphisms and exact sequences, free modules and vector
spaces, projective and injective modules, hom and duality, tensor products, modules over principal ideals domain(Chapter IV or Text 2). Fields and Ga- lois theory: Field extensions, the fundamental theorem, splitting fields, alge- braic closure and normality, Galois group of polynomial, finite fields, sepa- rability cyclic extensions, cyclotomic extensions, radical extensions(Chapter V of Text 2) Cohomology and homology: De Rham cohomology and Jordan curve theorem- Definitions of the De Rham croups, the cohomology map, the Jordan curve theorem, applications and variations(Chapter 5 of Text 1). Homology- Chains, cycles and H0 U , boundaries, H1 U and winding numbers, chains and grids, maps and cohomology, first homology group for general spaces(Chapter 5 of Text 1). Covering spaces- Definitions, lifting paths and homotopies, G-coverings and coverings transformations(Chapter 11 of Text 1). The fundamental group-Definitions and basic properties, homotopy, fundamental group and homology(Chapter 12 of Text 1) Text Books
1. W. Foulton, Algebraic Topology, Springer international edn. New
Delhi, 1995
2. T W Hungerford, Algebra, Springer verlag, New York, 1980
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