Not offered in 2017/18.
Melanie Matchett Wood (Fall 2016):
An introductory graduate level course on algebraic number theory. Topics: a rigorous introduction to the arithmetic of number fields, unique factorization, algebraic integers, Dedekind domains and factorization of ideals, geometry of numbers, Dirichlet's Unit Theorem, ideal class groups, first case of Fermat's Last Theorem, local fields.
See old webpage: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~mmwood/748Fall2014/748.html
credits:
3 (N-A)
semester:
Fall
prereqs:
a one-year course on Abstract Algebra at the graduate level, including various standard facts about groups, rings, fields, vector spaces, modules, and Galois Theory.