Introduction to Abstract Algebra
by W. Keith Nicholson · W. Keith Nicholson
An undergraduate textbook covering groups, rings, polynomials, and fields, with chapters on factorization in integral domains, field extensions, and Galois theory. Readers learn to work with ideals, quotient rings, and homomorphisms and prove standard structure theorems.
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