Contemporary Abstract Algebra 7/e provides a solid introduction to the traditional topics in abstract algebra while conveying to students that it is a contemporary subject used daily by working mathematicians, computer scientists, physicists, and chemists. The text includes numerous figures, tables, photographs, charts, biographies, computer exercises, and suggested readings giving the subject a current feel which makes the content interesting and relevant for students.
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Abstract algebra is an inherently abstract, formal, non-intuitive subject, and while it can be made less difficult, it cannot be made easy. Gallian's book is a valiant attempt at the latter. The book shies away from precise definitions, formal proofs, and that elusive thing known as "mathematical maturity." However, abstract algebra simply cannot be satisfactorily taught without at least a minimum of these things, and is best taught in as formal of an environment as possible. As such, I cannot recommend Gallian's book to those who wish to learn abstract algebra on a late undergraduate/beginning graduate level. However, for the advanced high school student who wishes to study abstract algebra early, Gallian's book is excellent in that it does not presume that the student has had much prior exposure to advanced mathematics.
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This book is one of the worst Modern Algebra books I have seen. This was a required text for our undergraduate algebra course. As a previous reviewer stated, which I feel is worth stating again, they develop very little math in each chapter. This book would be better if Dr. Gallian would drop the applications from this text (Modern Algebra is not an applied course at most universities), as well as the history sections on mathematicians and replace that with information in the chapters that have something to do with the homework questions. It would also save a lot of space.Unless you absolutely need this overpriced book, save your money and get a better one.
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I had to buy this book for my Abstract Algebra I class. I felt that this book worked OK because of the quality of my professor, but I do not feel it is a good book if you want to teach yourself and are new to the concepts in it. There are many places where the proof will say "clearly" or another similar phrase when it is most definitely not clear to any one but the author. Also the answers on the back of the book are not really answers at all- I remember one problem saying- "see proof of Theorem __ on page ___" which said "refer to Theorem __ on page ___" which said "proof is left as Exercise #___" so while it was clear that the proofs would all be similar- none of them were given, so there really was no answer.All in all I am not selling back my book because I feel that it has some good concepts in it, but I am also hanging onto my notes from class in order to interpret the book at a later date if need be.
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Cengage Learning, All Rights Reserved, Special Topics, Lagrange's Theorem, New York, Fermat's Last Theorem, Mathematics Magazine, Nobel Prize, Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups, University of Chicago, The American Mathematical Monthly, Scientific American, Burnside's Theorem, Prove Theorem, Cayley Diagraphs of Groups, American Mathematical Society, Sylow's Third Theorem, External Direct Products, Cayley's Theorem, Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory, Sylow Theorems, Extension Fields, Factorization of Polynomials, Well Ordering Principle, Irreducibility Test Browse Sample Pages:
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