Special Features
Over 1500 exercises, many with multiple parts, ranging in scope from routine to fairly sophisticated, and ranging in purpose from basic application of text material to exploration of important theoretical or computational techniques.
The
phasis throughout has been to motivate the introduction and development of important algebraic concepts using as many examples as possible.
Contains many topics not usually found in a basic algebra book such as rings of algebraic integers, semidirect products and the theory of extensions, criteria for Principal Ideal Domains, criteria for solvability of a quintic, and Dedekind
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