Tensor Product as a Universal Object (Category Theory & Module Theory)

IntroductionIt is quite often to see direct sum or direct product of groups, modules, vector spaces. Indeed, for modules over...

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Rings of Fractions and Localisation

Is perhaps the most important technical tools in commutative algebra. In this post we are covering definitions and simple pro...

Algebra

The Grothendienck Group

Free groupLet $A$ be an abelian group. Let $(e_i)_{i \in I}$ be a family of elements of $A$. We say that this family is a bas...

Algebra