Basic Algebra I: Second Edition

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Basic Algebra I: Second Edition

Nathan Jacobson
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Volume I of a pair of classic texts — and standard references for a generation — this book is the work of an expert algebraist who taught at Yale for two decades. Volume I covers all undergraduate topics, including groups, rings, modules, Galois theory, polynomials, linear algebra, and associative algebra. 1985 edition.
Reprint of the W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1985 edition.

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