Math 582FB
Homological Algebra

James Zhang

Winter 2005, Monday/Wednesday/Friday 1:30

In the beginning of the course (about 3 weeks) we will cover the basic theory in homological algebra: free modules, projective modules, injective modules, complexes, the functors Hom and and tensor functors, and their derived functions, Ext and Tor. We will also discuss some famous open questions related to homological dimension.

We will then spend about 3 weeks covering some basis material about triangulated categories, homotopy categories, and derived categories.

In the last part of the course (about 4 weeks) we will discuss several theories involving derived categories: