Honors Abstract Algebra

Overview & Synopsis

This note describes the following
topics, Peanos axioms, Rational numbers, Nonrigorous proof of the fundamental
theorem of algebra, polynomial equations, matrix theory, Groups, rings, and
fields, Vector spaces, Linear maps and the dual space, Wedge products and some
differential geometry, Polarization of a polynomial, Philosophy of the Lefschetz
theorem, Hodge star operator, Chinese remainder theorem, Jordan normal
form,Galois theory.