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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rotman, Joseph J., 1934- First course in abstract algebra. Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2000 (OCoLC)654492519 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joseph J Rotman |
| ISBN: | 0130115843 9780130115843 |
| OCLC Number: | 42960682 |
| Description: | xii, 531 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Number theory -- Induction -- Binomial coefficients -- Greatest common divisors -- The fundamental theorem of arithmetic -- Congruences -- Dates and days -- 2. Groups I -- Functions -- Permutations -- Groups symmetry -- Lagrange's theorem -- Homomorphisms -- Quotient groups -- Group actions -- Counting with groups -- 3. Commutative tings I -- First properties -- Fields -- Polynomials -- Homomorphisms -- Greatest common divisors euclidean rings -- Unique factorization -- Irreducibility -- Quotient rings and finite fields -- Officers, fertilizer, and a line at infinity -- 4. Goodies -- Linear algebra -- Vector spaces -- Linear transformations -- Applications to fields -- Euclidean constructions -- Classical formulas -- Insolvability of the general quintic -- Formulas and solvability by radicals -- Translation into group theory -- Epilog -- 5. Groups II -- Finite Abelian groups -- The Sylow theorems -- The Jordan-Hölder theorem -- Presentations -- 6. Commutative tings II -- Prime ideals and maximal ideals -- Unique factorization -- Noetherian rings -- Varieties -- Grobner bases -- Generalized division algorithm -- Gröbner bases. |
| Series Title: | Pearson education |
| Other Titles: | Abstract algebra |
| Responsibility: | Joseph J. Rotman. |
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