Algebra by Saunders Mac Lane

Algebra by Saunders Mac Lane

This book presents modern algebra from first principles and is accessible to undergraduates or graduates. It combines standard materials and necessary algebraic manipulations with general concepts that clarify meaning and importance. This conceptual approach to algebra starts with a description of algebraic structures by means of axioms chosen to suit the examples, for instance, axioms for groups, rings, fields, lattices, and vector spaces. This axiomatic approach - emphasized by Hilbert and developed in Germany by Noether, Artin, Van der Waerden, et al., in the 1920s - was popularized for the graduate level in the 1940s and 1950s to some degree by the authors' publication of A Survey of Modern Algebra. The present book presents the developments from that time to the first printing of this book. This third edition includes corrections made by the authors.

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ISBN 13	9780821816462
ISBN 10	0821816462
Title	Algebra
Author	Saunders Mac Lane
Series	Ams Chelsea Publishing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	American Mathematical Society
Year published	1999-02-28
Number of pages	626
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