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Author GouvĂȘa, Fernando Q. (Fernando Quadros), author.

Title A guide to groups, rings, and fields / Fernando Q. GouvĂȘa
Published Washington, DC : Mathematical Association of America, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 309 pages)
Series Dolciani mathematical expositions ; #48
MAA guides ; #8
Dolciani mathematical expositions ; no. 48.
MAA guides ; no. 8.
Contents Algebra : classical, modern, and ultramodern ; Categories ; Algebraic structures ; Groups and their representations ; Rings and modules ; Fields and skew fields
Summary This Guide offers a concise overview of the theory of groups, rings, and fields at the graduate level, emphasizing those aspects that are useful in other parts of mathematics. It focuses on the main ideas and how they hang together. It will be useful to both students and professionals. In addition to the standard material on groups, rings, modules, fields, and Galois theory, the book includes discussions of other important topics that are often omitted in the standard graduate course, including linear groups, group representations, the structure of Artinian rings, projective, injective and flat modules, Dedekind domains, and central simple algebras. All of the important theorems are discussed, without proofs but often with a discussion of the intuitive ideas behind those proofs. Those looking for a way to review and refresh their basic algebra will benefit from reading this Guide, and it will also serve as a ready reference for mathematicians who make use of algebra in their work
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Algebra.
Rings (Algebra)
Algebraic fields.
algebra.
MATHEMATICS -- Algebra -- Intermediate.
Algebra
Algebraic fields
Rings (Algebra)
Algebraische Gruppe
Ring Mathematik
Feld Mathematik
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012950687
ISBN 9781614442110
1614442118