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Book Suggestions Anonymous Tue Sep 5 06:20:27 2017 No.9150168 [Reply] [Original]

This book for my Intro to Abstract Algebra 1 class isn't very good. Does anyone have any books or texts they like/recommend for introductory Abstract Algebra?

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 06:23:54 2017 No.9150172 File: 33 KB, 379x475, 5102Y4WACTL.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] threadly reminder to learn rings and fields before groups

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 06:44:48 2017 No.9150199 >>9150172 why do you say that? This book started with groups.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 06:45:50 2017 No.9150201 >>9150199 my* book

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 07:06:19 2017 No.9150221 >>9150168 >>9150172 Both these books are for brainlets minoring in math.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 07:09:05 2017 No.9150227 >>9150199 >why do you say that? because one should be well acquainted with nice rings like Z, polynomial rings, etc. >>9150221 >Both these books are for brainlets minoring in math. Wrong.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 07:14:21 2017 No.9150232 >>9150227 Real majors use D&F

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 07:17:35 2017 No.9150236 >>9150232 Nah, by the time you can understand D&F it's a waste of time going through shallow, general algebra books like D&F instead of a proper book on group theory, a proper book on ring theory etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 07:22:51 2017 No.9150245 File: 13 KB, 338x468, Algebra-II-Textbook-for-Students-of-Mathematics-by-Alexey-L.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9150232 >D&F hilariously bloated; wordy enough for brainlets, too long-winded for brainiacs

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 07:51:38 2017 No.9150283 >>9150232 tell me more about this D&F book

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 08:09:55 2017 No.9150293 >>9150245 are you the same person who was posting this book the other day

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 08:11:10 2017 No.9150294 >>9150293 >are you the same person who was posting this book the other day Probably not

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 08:20:27 2017 No.9150300 File: 33 KB, 320x499, 516WR87HwbL._SX318_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9150168 I'm self teaching from Pinter right now

>>	Anonymous Tue Sep 5 08:22:54 2017 No.9150303 >>9150294 when it says for first two years does it mean undergrad or grad?

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