Basic Abstract Algebra

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Summary: A must for every math library
Review: Bhattacharya is very concise and readable for a very difficult subject, if you are new to abstract algebra. His proofs are complete and expert and his outline is great. Also his problems are useful

Rating:
Summary: A must for every math library
Review: Bhattacharya is very concise and readable for a very difficult subject, if you are new to abstract algebra. His proofs are complete and expert and his outline is great. Also his problems are useful

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Summary: Good but...
Review: I agree this is a very clear and easily readable text but a graduate text it is not. One would need to know most of this material before starting graduate level. Lots of stuff is left out and I think a rather better book that is equally clear and readable etc. but much more comprehensive with more worked examples and historical motivation is Malik et.al. in McGraw-Hill "Fundamentals of A.A.".

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Summary: Good but...
Review: I agree this is a very clear and easily readable text but a graduate text it is not. One would need to know most of this material before starting graduate level. Lots of stuff is left out and I think a rather better book that is equally clear and readable etc. but much more comprehensive with more worked examples and historical motivation is Malik et.al. in McGraw-Hill "Fundamentals of A.A.".

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Summary: too concise in some parts, good elsewhere
Review: I picked this book up at my students' society used bookstore for $10, it turned out to be a pretty good bargain. However, there are some theorems where the authors say something is obvious & I didn't think so. It isn't very often though, the rest of the book is pretty good, and I was a bit surprised because I had only heard of the well-known authors like Gallian, Herstein, Lang, etc. It covers maybe 3 courses worth of material too, including groups, rings, fields, vector spaces & modules, Galois Theory (complete with every possible application!), and more advanced stuff like a separate chapter on modules (in addition to the section with vector spaces), tensor products and principal ideal domains. There are also complete solutions to the odd-numbered problems. This book is surprisingly good except in certain parts, I like it.

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Summary: too concise in some parts, good elsewhere
Review: I picked this book up at my students' society used bookstore for $10, it turned out to be a pretty good bargain. However, there are some theorems where the authors say something is obvious & I didn't think so. It isn't very often though, the rest of the book is pretty good, and I was a bit surprised because I had only heard of the well-known authors like Gallian, Herstein, Lang, etc. It covers maybe 3 courses worth of material too, including groups, rings, fields, vector spaces & modules, Galois Theory (complete with every possible application!), and more advanced stuff like a separate chapter on modules (in addition to the section with vector spaces), tensor products and principal ideal domains. There are also complete solutions to the odd-numbered problems. This book is surprisingly good except in certain parts, I like it.

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Summary: An extremely good text book
Review: This is an excellent book containing more than enough examples.And the concepts are explained very very clear.The most improtant is that, although this book is easy to follow, but its content is not simple.