Algebra
P. A. Grillet(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 26. May 1999
Book
Hardback
678 pages
978-0-471-25243-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 166 mm
Weight
1128 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-25243-6 (9780471252436)
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Person
PIERRE GRILLET is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure 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.
Content
Groups: groups; group constructions; finite Groups. Rings: rings; factorization in rings. Fields: field extensions; galois theory; ordered fields; fields with valuations. Rings and modules: modules; commutative rings; semisimplicity; representation of finite groups; more modules; tensor products; algebras. Other structures: categories; universal algebra; lattices.