MATH 310 Group Theory Units: 3.00
Permutation groups, matrix groups, abstract groups, subgroups, homomorphisms, cosets, quotient groups, group actions, Sylow theorems.
Learning Hours: 132 (36 Lecture, 96 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite MATH 210.
Course Equivalencies: MATH310, MATH313
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Work with axioms of an abstract group, different examples of finite and infinite groups in geometric, combinatorial and algebraic settings.
- Work with group action on sets and its orbits, the orbit-stabilizer theorem.
- Work with homomorphism, automorphism, and isomorphism of groups, as well as all three isomorphism theorems for groups.
- Work with Lagrange's theorem, Euler's theorem, Fermat's Little theorem, Cauchy's theorem, and their applications.
- Work with subgroups, generators, cosets, conjugacy classes, quotient groups, as well as examples of these notions in different settings.
- Work with Sylow theorems and their application.