Abstract Algebra: A Comprehensive Treatment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780824709853)

In one exceptional volume, Abstract Algebra covers subject matter typically taught over the course of two or three years and offers a self-contained presentation, detailed definitions, and excellent chapter-matched exercises to smooth the trajectory of learning algebra from zero to one. Field-tested through advance use in the ERASMUS educational project in Europe, this ambitious, comprehensive book includes an original treatment of representation of finite groups that avoids the use of semisimple ring theory and explains sets, maps, posets, lattices, and other essentials of the algebraic language; Peano's axioms and cardinality; groupoids, semigroups, monoids, groups; and normal subgroups.

Author: Claudia Menini,Freddy Van Oystaeyen
ISBN-10: 0824709853
ISBN-13: 9780824709853
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2004
Pages: 776
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.08w x 1.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2004 pg. 698