Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will:
1. know the historical development of commutative algebra
2. be able to compute the primary decomposition of ideals
3. be able to compute the Hilbert function
4. be able to compute the dimension of a module
Course Content (Syllabus)
Historical elements, connection with algebraic number theory-algebraic geometry, invariant theory.
Prime and Maximal ideals, localization.
Noetherian Rings and Hilbert's basis theorem.
Associated primes and primary decomposition.
Noetherian and Artinian Modules.
Homomorphisms, exact sequences, tensor products, flat modules. Localization.
Integer dependence and Nullstellensatz. Noether's normalization.
Filtering and the Artin-Rees Lemma.
Dimension theory and Hilbert Samuel polynomials.
If time permits: Discrete Valuation Rings and Dedekind's domains
Completion, Hensel's Lemma.