Abstract Algebra: Introduction to Groups, Rings and Fields With Applications

Reis, Clive/ Rankin, Stuart A.

ISBN 10: 981473053X / ISBN 13: 9789814730532

Published by World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2016

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2nd edition. 555 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Abstract Algebra: Introduction to Groups, Rings and Fields With Applications
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 981473053X
• ISBN 13: 9789814730532
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.93 kilograms

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Synopsis

This second edition covers essentially the same topics as the first. However, the presentation of the material has been extensively revised and improved. In addition, there are two new chapters, one dealing with the fundamental theorem of finitely generated abelian groups and the other a brief introduction to semigroup theory and automata.

This book is appropriate for second to fourth year undergraduates. In addition to the material traditionally taught at this level, the book contains several applications: Polya-Burnside Enumeration, Mutually Orthogonal Latin Squares, Error-Correcting Codes, and a classification of the finite groups of isometries of the plane and the finite rotation groups in Euclidean 3-space, semigroups and automata. It is hoped that these applications will help the reader achieve a better grasp of the rather abstract ideas presented and convince him/her that pure mathematics, in addition to having an austere beauty of its own, can be applied to solving practical problems.

Considerable emphasis is placed on the algebraic system consisting of the congruence classes mod n under the usual operations of addition and multiplication. The reader is thus introduced -- via congruence classes -- to the idea of cosets and factor groups. This enables the transition to cosets and factor objects to be relatively painless.

In this book, cosets, factor objects and homomorphisms are introduced early on so that the reader has at his/her disposal the tools required to give elegant proofs of the fundamental theorems. Moreover, homomorphisms play such a prominent role in algebra that they are used in this text wherever possible.