Algebra: Third Edition

Algebra: Third Edition
ISBN-10
147047476X
ISBN-13
9781470474768
Series
Algebra
Category
Mathematics
Pages
650
Language
English
Published
2023-10-10
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Authors
Garrett Birkhoff, Saunders Mac Lane

Description

This book presents modern algebra from first principles and is accessible to undergraduates or graduates. It combines standard materials and necessary algebraic manipulations with general concepts that clarify meaning and importance. This conceptual approach to algebra starts with a description of algebraic structures by means of axioms chosen to suit the examples, for instance, axioms for groups, rings, fields, lattices, and vector spaces. This axiomatic approach—emphasized by Hilbert and developed in Germany by Noether, Artin, Van der Waerden, et al., in the 1920s—was popularized for the graduate level in the 1940s and 1950s to some degree by the authors' publication of A Survey of Modern Algebra. The present book presents the developments from that time to the first printing of this book. This third edition includes corrections made by the authors.

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