The schedule will be updated as the course progresses.


week 1
01/15

Modules - direct sums and products, quotient modules, module homomorphisms; free modules and their bases; invariant basis number property and rank of free module; projective modules.
week 2
01/22

Group completion and the group K0 of a ring; categorical considerations: natural transformations of functors, representable functors, adjoint functors.

week 3
01/29
Hom functor and tensor product: adjointness, relation to bilinear maps, basic properties.
week 4
02/05
Restriction and extension of scalars; application to rings with the IBN property; algebras and their tensor products.


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