ABSTRACT ALGEBRA- TOPICS- CSIR UGC NET MATHEMATICAL SCIENCE

1. Permutations, combinations, pigeon-hole principle, inclusion-exclusion principle, derangements.
2. Fundamental theorem of arithmetic, divisibility in Z, congruences, Chinese Remainder Theorem, Euler’s Ø- function, primitive roots. 
3. Groups, subgroups, normal subgroups, quotient groups, homomorphisms, cyclic groups, permutation groups, Cayley’s theorem, class equations, Sylow theorems. 
4. Rings, ideals, prime and maximal ideals, quotient rings, unique factorization domain, principal ideal domain, Euclidean domain. 
5. Polynomial rings and irreducibility criteria. 
6. Fields, finite fields, field extensions, Galois Theory.