A First Course in Abstract Algebra
by John B. Fraleigh · John B. Fraleigh
A gentler first pass through groups, rings, and fields, building each idea from concrete examples before the abstraction, with graded exercises that make it workable without an instructor. Commonly assigned before Dummit and Foote.
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