PMATH 900Topics in Algebra

Level: Graduate
Faculty: Mathematics
Last listed: Spring 2014

No longer offered. It’s in the archived Graduate Calendars from Fall 2009 to Spring 2014.

Notes, as last listed

Department Consent Required

1 Commutative Rings

2 Complex Semisimple Lie Algebra

3 Rep. Theory of Compact Groups

4 Topics: Infinite Group Theory

5 Foundations of Quantum Theory

6 Valuation Theory

7 Valued Fields

8 Special Algebraic Structures

9 Groebner Bases

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Spring 2019

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Fall 2017

Sep 15, 2017 Questions about Mathematical Finance major 2 points, 13 comments

“Hello. I'm a first year Math student. I want to pursue a career in actuarial science or statistics, but I also want to learn about pure math itself. …”

[deleted]: “… The only place I've actually used my PMATH knowledge from MF in a real way is in PMATH 900-level topics courses.”