The simplicity of the language, the organization of the ideas, and the conciseness with completeness are this book's main strengths as it introduces abstract algebra. It plunges directly into algebraic structures and incorporates an unusually large number of examples to clarify abstract concepts
Abstract Algebra: A First Course
โ Scribed by Larry Joel Goldstein
- Publisher
- Prentice-Hall
- Year
- 1973
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 353
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Cover
Title
Contents
Logical Interdependence of Chapters
Preface
1. Introduction
2. Set theory and arithmetic
3. The theory of groups, I
4. The theory of rings
5. Unique factorization
6. Vector spaces
7. The theory of fields
8. The theory of groups, II
9. Galois theory
10. Conclusion
Index
Back cover
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The simplicity of the language, the organization of the ideas, and the conciseness with completeness are this book's main strengths as it introduces abstract algebra. It plunges directly into algebraic structures and incorporates an unusually large number of examples to clarify abstract concepts
When a student of mathematics studies abstract algebra, he or she inevitably faces questions in the vein of, What is abstract algebra or What makes it abstract? Algebra, in its broadest sense, describes a way of thinking about classes of sets equipped with binary operations. In high school algebra,