Along with the classical version, there are two "quantized" versions of the theory of operator algebras. In these lectures, the fundamental homological notion of a projective module is described in the framework of these three theories. Our initial definitions of projectivity do not go far from their prototypes in abstract algebra; however, the principal results concern essentially functional-analytic objects and, as a rule, have no purely algebraic analogs.
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