Course progression

Expected Course Progression
Week Starting Topics
18 Aug Rings, homomorphisms, ideals
25 Aug Prime and maximal ideals, fields, integral domains
PIDs and UFDs, local rings
1 Sep Operations on ideals, coprime ideals, the Chinese remainder theorem
8 Sep Modules, Nakayama's lemma
15 Sep Exact sequences, additive functions, the tensor product
22 Sep Exactness of the tensor product, flat modules, algebras
29 Sep Rings of fractions, modules of fractions
6 Oct Local properties, prime ideals in fraction rings
13 Oct Integral dependence, lying over and going up
20 Oct Chain conditions, simple modules and composition series
27 Oct Noetherian rings, Noether normalisation
3 Nov Hilbert's nullstellensatz, Hilbert's basis theorem
10 Nov Artinian rings
17 Nov DVRs
24 Nov Revision
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