Introduction to Ring and Module Theory

Alberto Facchini studied at the University of Padua, getting the Laurea in Matematica magna cum laude in 1977. He has worked at the University of Udine from 1981 to 1999, becoming full professor of Algebra, and then at the University of Padua from 1999 to 2022. At present he is Emeritus Professor at the University of Padua. He also got fellowships to study and do research at the University of Sheffield, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and Centre de Recerca Matemàtica. He has written about 180 scientific publications and has given lectures and talks at conferences in about forty different countries. In 1981 he received the Bonavera Prize in Mathematics.He has been in the editorial boards of about fifteen mathematical journal, among which Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana, Communications in Algebra, Journal of Algebra and Its Applications, Rendiconti del Circolo Matematico di Palermo, and Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico dell'Università di Padova.

• - 1. Basic Notions.- 2. Some Classes of Modules.- 3. Right Artinian Rings.- 4. Local Rings, Injective Modules, Flat Modules.- 5. Additive Categories, Abelian Categories.- 6. Appendices.