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30th December 2015, 10:46 AM
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Pure Mathematics Calcutta University
Can you provide me the syllabus of M.Sc. course offered by Department of Pure Mathematics of University of Calcutta as I want to check it before applying for the course?
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30th December 2015, 10:51 AM
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Re: Pure Mathematics Calcutta University
The Department of Pure Mathematics of University of Calcutta was established in 1912. The course structure for M.Sc. has semester-wise distribution of courses (4 semesters in total). Syllabus The syllabus of M.Sc. course offered by Department of Pure Mathematics of University of Calcutta is as follows: Algebra-I • Group Theory : External direct product and internal direct product of groups. Direct product of cyclic groups. Group actions, extended Cayley’s theorem, Burnside theorem. Conjugacy classes, class–equation. Cauchy’s theorem on finite groups, p-group, Centre of p-groups. Sylow’s theorems, some applications of Sylow’s theorems, Simple groups, characterizations of commutative simple groups, non simplicity of groups of order p n (n > 1), pq, p 2 q, p 2 q 2 (p, q are primes), determination of all simple groups of order ≤ 60, nonsimplicity of An (n ≥ 5). Finite groups, classification of all groups of order 6, the groups D4 and Q8, classification of all groups of order 8. Structure theorem for finite Abelian groups. Normal and subnormal series, composition series, Jordan – Holder theorem, solvable groups and nilpotent groups. • Ring Theory : Ideal, Quotient ring, Ring embeddings, direct sum of rings, Euclidean domain, principal ideal domain, prime elements and irreducible elements, maximal ideals, prime ideals, primary ideals, chain condition, polynomial ring and factorization of polynomials over a commutative ring with identity, polynomials over rational field, the division algorithm in K[x] where K is a field, K[x] as Euclidean domain, unique factorization domain, If D is UFD , then so are D[x] and D[x1, x2, . . . , xn], Application of unique factorization domain to the introductory algebraic number theory, Eisenstein’s criterion of irreducibility, Noetherian and Artinian rings, Hilbert Basis Theorem. Algebraic approach to Fermat’s Theorem, Euler’s Theorem, Willson’s Theorem, Chinese Remainder Theorem, primitive roots. |