TENTATIVE COURSE PLAN:


Weeks

Subject

Sections

1

Examples of Groups

*

2

Basics

1--4

3

Endomorphisms

5

4

Extensions

6

5

Free Abelian Groups

7

*

EXAM 1

 

6

Finitely Generated Abelian Groups

8

7

Divisible/Periodic Abelian Groups

9&10

8

Sylow p-subgroups

11

9

Finite Simple Groups

12&13

*

EXAM 2

 

10

Nilpotent Groups

16

11

Finite Nilpotent Groups

17

12

Solvable Groups

19

13

Finite Solvable Groups

20

*

EXAM 3

 

14

Solvable Matrix Groups

21

15

Review

1--21

 

(*) Not included in the textbook.