Homological Algebra
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Homological Algebra

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
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Homological Algebra

About this book

When this book was written, methods of algebraic topology had caused revolutions in the world of pure algebra. To clarify the advances that had been made, Cartan and Eilenberg tried to unify the fields and to construct the framework of a fully fledged theory. The invasion of algebra had occurred on three fronts through the construction of cohomology theories for groups, Lie algebras, and associative algebras. This book presents a single homology (and also cohomology) theory that embodies all three; a large number of results is thus established in a general framework. Subsequently, each of the three theories is singled out by a suitable specialization, and its specific properties are studied.


The starting point is the notion of a module over a ring. The primary operations are the tensor product of two modules and the groups of all homomorphisms of one module into another. From these, "higher order" derived of operations are obtained, which enjoy all the properties usually attributed to homology theories. This leads in a natural way to the study of "functors" and of their "derived functors."


This mathematical masterpiece will appeal to all mathematicians working in algebraic topology.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter I. Rings and Modules
  7. Chapter II. Additive Functors
  8. Chapter III. Satellites
  9. Chapter IV. Homology
  10. Chapter V. Derived Functors
  11. Chapter VI. Derived Functors of ⊗ and Hom
  12. Chapter VII. Integral Domains
  13. Chapter VIII. Augmented Rings
  14. Chapter IX. Associative Algebras
  15. Chapter X. Supplemented Algebras
  16. Chapter XI. Products
  17. Chapter XII. Finite Groups
  18. Chapter XIII. Lie Algebras
  19. Chapter XIV. Extensions
  20. Chapter XV. Spectral Sequences
  21. Chapter XVI. Applications of Spectral Sequences
  22. Chapter XVII. Hyperhomology
  23. Appendix: Exact categories
  24. List of Symbols
  25. Index of Terminology