Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Algebraic number fields and rings of algebraic integers; arithmetic in algebraic number fields; ideals; unique factorization of ideals; ideal classes and the class group; finiteness of the class number; Minkowski's theorem; Dirichlet's unit theorem; quadratic and cyclotomic number fields; splitting of primes in extension fields.
Prerequisite: MATH 653 or approval of instructor.
Sections
This course is not taught in Fall 2023.