Noncommutative Rings (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks, Series Number 15) - Softcover

Herstein, I. N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0883850397 ISBN 13: 9780883850398

Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America, 2005

Synopsis

A classic advanced textbook, containing a cross-section of ideas, techniques and results that give the reader an unparalleled introductory overview of the subject. The author gives an integrated presentation of overall theory and its applications in, for example, the study of groups of matrices, group representations, and in settling the problems of Burnside and Kurosh. Readers are also informed of open questions. Definitions are kept to a minimum and the statements of the theorems are sharp and clear.

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About the Author

I. N. Herstein received a Ph.D. in 1948 for a thesis written under Zorn's supervision. He worked at the University of Kansas for two years, then at Ohio State University for a year before being appointed to Chicago in 1951. There he was influenced by Abraham Albert. During this time he worked on a topic which was to be one of the main themes of his work, namely on conditions on a ring which imply commutativity. After posts at Pennsylvania and Cornell, he returned to Chicago in 1962 and remained there for the rest of his life. Herstein is perhaps best known for his beautifully written algebra texts, especially the undergraduate text Topics in algebra (1964).

Edition details

• Publisher: The Mathematical Association of America
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0883850397
• ISBN 13: 9780883850398
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 210