Algebra (Pure and Applied Mathematics: A Wiley Series of Texts, Monographs and Tracts) - Hardcover

Grillet, Pierre Antoine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471252433 ISBN 13: 9780471252436

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

This new algebra text mounts serious competition to standard textbooks presently used in abstract algebra courses at the advanced undergraduate and first–year graduate level. It addresses the needs of professors and students alike, providing professors with a broad selection of topics to pick and choose from, while offering students an accessible, succinct, and extremely well–written text.

About this title

About the Author

PIERRE GRILLET is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and a Professor of Mathematics at Tulane University. His main areas of research are the structure and construction of semigroups, category theory, universal algebra, and lattices. He has published more than sixty research papers and monographs, and has written two books.

From the Back Cover

A one–of–a–kind introduction to abstract algebra.

Does the world need another algebra book? Yes, if it is as clearly written and succinctly presented as this one. Addressing the needs of students at the senior/graduate level as well as mathematicians in the market for a comprehensive reference, Algebra combines an exceptionally accessible discussion of the basics with a remarkably thorough and well–organized treatment. Readers can pick and choose from a broad array of important topics, learn how various concepts relate to one another, and acquire a sense of the scope and thrust of contemporary algebra as well as its practical application. Under major headings devoted to groups, rings, fields, rings and modules, and other structures such as universal algebras, categories, and lattices, this unique resource:

• Features a careful selection of important examples.
• Incorporates exercises that help develop research skills.
• Shows how results in one area have applications in another.
• Promotes conceptual understanding of the field as a whole.
• Provides appendices on numbers and set theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471252433
• ISBN 13: 9780471252436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 678