Advanced Algebra: Rings and Fields - Softcover

Parks, Alan

 
9781478276067: Advanced Algebra: Rings and Fields

Synopsis

Text for an upper level undergraduate course in abstract algebra: review of group theory with solvable groups, rings, ideals, quotient rings, polynomial rings, factorization into irreducibles and primes, field extensions, algebraic elements, Galois theory involving subgroups and normal subgroups. Solution of many problems of historical importance in polynomial equations, geometry, number theory.

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About the Author

Professor Parks has been in the mathematics department of Lawrence University since 1985. He is interested primarily in applied mathematics, although his PhD thesis involved abstract algebra.

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