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Book DetailsDolciani Mathematical ExpositionsVolume: 48; 2012; 309 pp
This book offers a concise overview of the theory of groups, rings, and fields at the graduate level, emphasizing those aspects that are useful in other parts of mathematics. It focuses on the main ideas and how they hang together. It will be useful to both students and professionals. In addition to the standard material on groups, rings, modules, fields, and Galois theory, the book includes discussions of other important topics that are often omitted in the standard graduate course, including linear groups, group representations, the structure of Artinian rings, projective, injective and flat modules, Dedekind domains, and central simple algebras. All of the important theorems are discussed, without proofs but often with a discussion of the intuitive ideas behind those proofs.
Those looking for a way to review and refresh their basic algebra will benefit from reading this guide, and it will also serve as a ready reference for mathematicians who make use of algebra in their work.
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Table of Contents
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Chapters
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A Guide to this Guide
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Chapter 1. Algebra: Classical, Modern, and Ultramodern
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Chapter 2. Categories
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Chapter 3. Algebraic Structures
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Chapter 4. Groups and their Representations
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Chapter 5. Rings and Modules
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Chapter 6. Fields and Skew Fields
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Additional Material
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Reviews
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... Billed as delivering a concise, graduate-level overview of the theory of groups, rings, and fields, it emphasizes the main ideas and how they hang together, as well as the ways these subjects are used in other parts of mathematics. ... Overall, an enjoyable volume.
F.E.J. Linton, CHOICE -
This expository algebra book is highly unusual—but in a very successful manner.
Tom De Medts, Mathematical Reviews -
This book is one of the latest in the MAA series of guides to different areas of mathematics intended to summarize the material graduate students need to know in preparing for PhD comprehensive exams. This one in particular, is welcome since the area, abstract algebra is a required exam subject at many universities. The organization of the book is straightforward with three brief introductory chapters (totalling 28 pages) giving a bit of history, a very little bit of category theory, and some observations on the organization of the subject. ... number theorists, operator theorists, and students in most other areas will find this book most satisfactory in all respects.
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This book offers a concise overview of the theory of groups, rings, and fields at the graduate level, emphasizing those aspects that are useful in other parts of mathematics. It focuses on the main ideas and how they hang together. It will be useful to both students and professionals. In addition to the standard material on groups, rings, modules, fields, and Galois theory, the book includes discussions of other important topics that are often omitted in the standard graduate course, including linear groups, group representations, the structure of Artinian rings, projective, injective and flat modules, Dedekind domains, and central simple algebras. All of the important theorems are discussed, without proofs but often with a discussion of the intuitive ideas behind those proofs.
Those looking for a way to review and refresh their basic algebra will benefit from reading this guide, and it will also serve as a ready reference for mathematicians who make use of algebra in their work.
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Chapters
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A Guide to this Guide
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Chapter 1. Algebra: Classical, Modern, and Ultramodern
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Chapter 2. Categories
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Chapter 3. Algebraic Structures
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Chapter 4. Groups and their Representations
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Chapter 5. Rings and Modules
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Chapter 6. Fields and Skew Fields
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... Billed as delivering a concise, graduate-level overview of the theory of groups, rings, and fields, it emphasizes the main ideas and how they hang together, as well as the ways these subjects are used in other parts of mathematics. ... Overall, an enjoyable volume.
F.E.J. Linton, CHOICE -
This expository algebra book is highly unusual—but in a very successful manner.
Tom De Medts, Mathematical Reviews -
This book is one of the latest in the MAA series of guides to different areas of mathematics intended to summarize the material graduate students need to know in preparing for PhD comprehensive exams. This one in particular, is welcome since the area, abstract algebra is a required exam subject at many universities. The organization of the book is straightforward with three brief introductory chapters (totalling 28 pages) giving a bit of history, a very little bit of category theory, and some observations on the organization of the subject. ... number theorists, operator theorists, and students in most other areas will find this book most satisfactory in all respects.
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