A History of Abstract Algebra: From Algebraic Equations to Modern Algebra

by Jeremy Gray

This textbook provides an accessible account of the history of abstract algebra, tracing a range of topics in modern algebra and number theory back to their modest presence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and exploring the impact of ideas on the development of the subject.

Beginning with Gauss's theory of numbers and Galois's ideas, the book progresses to Dedekind and Kronecker, Jordan and Klein, Steinitz, Hilbert, and Emmy Noether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319947729
• ISBN13: 9783319947723
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 415 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"