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Widely acclaimed algebra text. This book is designed to give the reader insight into the power and beauty that accrues from a rich interplay between different areas of mathematics. The book carefully develops the theory of different algebraic structures, beginning from basic... Read Full Overview

Widely acclaimed algebra text. This book is designed to give the reader insight into the power and beauty that accrues from a rich interplay between different areas of mathematics. The book carefully develops the theory of different algebraic structures, beginning from basic... Read Full Overview

Reflects the authors' belief that readers should be given some insight into the the main themes of abstract algebra, as well as an understanding of how these themes provide a unifying framework for the study of basic algebra structures, such as groups, rings and fields.

Covering such material as tensor products, commutative rings, algebraic number theory and introductory algebraic geometry, this work includes exercises ranging in scope from routine to fairly sophisticated, including exploration of important theoretical or computational techniques... Read Full Overview

Widely acclaimed algebra text. This book is designed to give the reader insight into the power and beauty that accrues from a rich interplay between different areas of mathematics. The book carefully develops the theory of different algebraic structures, beginning from basic... Read Full Overview