Requirements/prerequisites: prerequisite: MA1111
Duration: Hilary term, 11 weeks

Number of lectures per week: 3 lectures including tutorials per week

Assessment:

End-of-year Examination: 2 hour examination in Trinity term.

Description: (Preliminary.) Definition of a group and simple examples (permutation groups, reflection groups), Lagrange's theorem, normal subgroups and first isomorphism theorem, examples of linear groups like 3 ×3 orthogonal group and SU(2).

Apr 30, 2009