Commutative Algebra

As taught in: Fall 2008

The UMP of the residue class ring.

The universal mapping property (UMP) of the residue class ring. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)

Instructors:

Prof. Steven Kleiman

MIT Course Number:

18.705

Level:

Graduate

Course Features

Course Description

In this course students will learn about Noetherian rings and modules, Hilbert basis theorem, Cayley-Hamilton theorem, integral dependence, Noether normalization, the Nullstellensatz, localization, primary decomposition, DVRs, filtrations, length, Artin rings, Hilbert polynomials, tensor products, and dimension theory.