Cohomology of finite groups (Q4258074)

[For a review of the original see Zbl 0184.05201.] These are the notes from a course given by the author at the University of Illinois in the fall of 1967. The main ideas presented here are due to Artin, Hochschild, Nakayama and Tate. Aside from the material drawn from some of the sources in the bibliography, is included, in essence, Artin's lectures given at New York University in 1957-58. The separate treatment of (Tate) cohomology theory of finite groups from that of groups is not purely for reasons of taste. The attractive features of cohomology theory of finite groups (in fact its very existence) are due to the presence of the trace (sum of the elements of the group in the group ring) and its invariance under the action of the group, whereas the presence of cohomology theory of groups is due to the underlying monoid structure of the group. The author tried to make these ideas clear in Chapters 2-5. Here is the table of contents: Chapter 1, Elements of homological algebra; Chapter 2, Cohomology of finite groups; Chapter 3, Computations; Chapter 4, Relations with subgroups and quotient groups; Chapter 5, Cup products; and Chapter 6, Applications.