Table of Contents

Introduction: Prerequisites and Preliminaries.- 1. Logic.- 2. Sets and Classes.- 3. Functions.- 4. Relations and Partitions.- 5. Products.- 6. The Integers.- 7. The Axiom of Choice, Order and Zorn’s Lemma.- 8. Cardinal Numbers.- I: Groups.- 1. Semigroups, Monoids and Groups.- 2. Homomorphisms and Subgroups.- 3. Cyclic Groups.- 4. Cosets and Counting.- 5. Normality, Quotient Groups, and Homomorphisms.- 6. Symmetric, Alternating, and Dihedral Groups.- 7. Categories: Products, Coproducts, and Free Objects.- 8. Direct Products and Direct Sums.- 9. Free Groups, Free Products, Generators & Relations.- II: The Structure of Groups.- 1. Free Abelian Groups.- 2. Finitely Generated Abelian Groups.- 3. The Kruli-Schmidt Theorem.- 4. The Action of a Group on a Set.- 5. The Sylow Theorems.- 6. Classification of Finite Groups.- 7. Nilpotent and Solvable Groups.- 8. Normal and Subnormal Series.- III: Rings.- 1. Rings and Homomorphisms.- 2. Ideals.- 3. Factorization in Commutative Rings.- 4. Rings of Quotients and Localization.- 5. Rings of Polynomials and Formal Power Series.- 6. Factorization in Polynomial Rings.- IV: Modules.- 1. Modules, Homomorphisms and Exact Sequences.- 2. Free Modules and Vector Spaces.- 3. Projective and Injective Modules.- 4. Horn and Duality.- 5. Tensor Products.- 6. Modules over a Principal Ideal Domain.- 7. Algebras.- V: Fields and Galois Theory.- 1. Field Extensions.- 2. The Fundamental Theorem.- 3. Splitting Fields, Algebraic Closure and Normality.- 4. The Galois Group of a Polynomial.- 5. Finite Fields.- 6. Separability.- 7. Cyclic Extensions.- 8. Cyclotomic Extensions.- 9. Radical Extensions.- VI: The Structure of Fields.- 1. Transcendence Bases.- 2. Linear Disjointness and Separability.- VII: Linear Algebra.- 1. Matrices and Maps.- 2. Rank andEquivalence.- 3. Determinants.- 4. Decomposition of a Single Linear Transformation and Similarity.- 5. The Characteristic Polynomial, Eigenvectors and Eigenvalues.- VIII: Commutative Rings and Modules.- 1. Chain Conditions.- 2. Prime and Primary Ideals.- 3. Primary Decomposition.- 4. Noetherian Rings and Modules.- 5. Ring Extensions.- 6. Dedekind Domains.- 7. The Hilbert Nullstellensatz.- IX: The Structure of Rings.- 1. Simple and Primitive Rings.- 2. The Jacobson Radical.- 3. Semisimple Rings.- 4. The Prime Radical; Prime and Semiprime Rings.- 5. Algebras.- 6. Division Algebras.- X: Categories.- 1. Functors and Natural Transformations.- 2. Adjoint Functors.- 3. Morphisms.- List of Symbols.

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Thomas W. Hungerford Algebra "An excellent text from which to teach the beginning graduate survey course in algebra and I would recommend it to anyone considering a text for such a course."-LINEAR AND MULTILINEAR ALGEBRA