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Anonymous Sun Jan 17 21:34:37 2021 No.12594934 [Reply] [Original]

I tried reading Artin, but I disliked it. Is Pinter a good alternative?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 17 21:41:47 2021 No.12594961 >>12594934 It is a very accessible introduction to abstract algebra. I enjoyed it. Went through it all apart from Galois theory.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 00:56:35 2021 No.12595400

It's a book for retards. You probably disliked Artin because it was too demanding for you, but assuming it was just a matter of taste you can substitute Artin for another book of its level of sophistication:

>Dummit & Foote - Abstract Algebra (very comprehensive)
>Mac Lane and Birkhoff - Algebra
>Herstein - Topics in Algebra (a classic undergraduate text with excellent exercises)
>Jacobson - Basic Algebra
>Hungerford - Algebra
>Lang - Algebra

The last 3 are grad level and probably a bit too difficult. I would stick with either D&F, Mac Lane, or Herstein. Now note that Herstein and Hungerford wrote retarded brainlet books. You want TOPICS IN ALGEBRA by Herstein and ALGEBRA by Hungerford. Here are the books lacking rigor for idiots - stay away from them:

>Pinter
>Hungerford (the bad one)
>Herstein (the bad one)
>Gallian
>Fraleigh

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 02:29:57 2021 No.12595574

>>12595400
I'm quite enjoying Pinter so far. I see no need to shun any and all motivation in an introductory text. I've not found it lacking in rigor. Could you give an example of it?

I disliked Artin because I felt there was a lack of motivation for what he did. Examples and motivation should precede definitions. Never accept a definition if you don't know what it's for.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 05:39:10 2021 No.12595874 It's good for high schoolers. But you should honestly get a more serious book if you are an undergrad.

Anonymous Mon Jan 18 13:59:57 2021 No.12597136

>>12594934
>>12595574
I've read through pinter back-to-front and done all the exercises. While it is an easy & enjoyable read I wouldn't recommend it because it's completely missing important topics like group actions, semi-direct product, free abelian groups, free groups, finitely-generated abelian groups and their classification, composition and decomposition series, some of the isomorphism theorems, etc. The most important of which are group actions which I don't understand how a group theory book can be missing since if there's one thing to include that would be it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 14:23:59 2021 No.12597269 File: 18 KB, 296x475, 79780.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Come home white man.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:55:29 2021 No.12598229 Pinter isn't that bad, is it? I thought it was an alright undergraduate text provided it was for a first course, and that you'd cover a more advanced text as a graduate for a second course.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 17:56:23 2021 No.12598231 >>12597269 >Lang >White

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:00:20 2021 No.12598253 >>12597269 >Lang Aluffi is better for people who are new to the material

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 18:02:44 2021 No.12598267 >>12598253 Nah, Lang is easier

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 18 22:44:57 2021 No.12599131 bump

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