Introduction to Abstract Algebra (The Random House/Birkhauser Mathematics Series) |  | Author: E.a. Y Walker
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1930226
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 355
ISBN: 039435611X
EAN: 9780394356112
Publication Date: June 9, 1988
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Stay away. Stay far away. October 7, 2005
Homer Simpson (Springfield, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I wish I could offers some nice comments here, but the truth is I really, really don't like this book. You can get it for free at the author's website, but it's not worth the download. If your professor uses this as a class text, I suggest you switch sections. The title says "Introductory" but I'd wager few students for whom this book is intended could wade through it. I've had two semesters of 400-level Algebra and I find parts of this book unreadable. The proofs are sketchy and the examples are few and far between. When I read a math book I like to understand every little thing. Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to get through a paragraph of this book because I'm constantly wondering where things came from. It seems at times as though the author wrote a beautiful 600-page Algebra book and the publisher decided to randomly chop it down to a couple hundred pages. I give it one star, but only because it included semi-direct products.
It's currently out of print, and for good reason.
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