Introduction to Abstract Algebra (Textbooks in Mathematics, Band 31) - Hardcover

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Smith, Jonathan D. H.

 
9781498731614: Introduction to Abstract Algebra (Textbooks in Mathematics, Band 31)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1498731619 ISBN 13: 9781498731614
Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to Abstract Algebra, Second Edition presents abstract algebra as the main tool underlying discrete mathematics and the digital world. It avoids the usual groups first/rings first dilemma by introducing semigroups and monoids, the multiplicative structures of rings, along with groups.

This new edition of a widely adopted textbook covers applications from biology, science, and engineering. It offers numerous updates based on feedback from first edition adopters, as well as improved and simplified proofs of a number of important theorems. Many new exercises have been added, while new study projects examine skewfields, quaternions, and octonions.

The first three chapters of the book show how functional composition, cycle notation for permutations, and matrix notation for linear functions provide techniques for practical computation. These three chapters provide a quick introduction to algebra, sufficient to exhibit irrational numbers or to gain a taste of cryptography.

Chapters four through seven cover abstract groups and monoids, orthogonal groups, stochastic matrices, Lagrange’s theorem, groups of units of monoids, homomorphisms, rings, and integral domains. The first seven chapters provide basic coverage of abstract algebra, suitable for a one-semester or two-quarter course.

Each chapter includes exercises of varying levels of difficulty, chapter notes that point out variations in notation and approach, and study projects that cover an array of applications and developments of the theory.

The final chapters deal with slightly more advanced topics, suitable for a second-semester or third-quarter course. These chapters delve deeper into the theory of rings, fields, and groups. They discuss modules, including vector spaces and abelian groups, group theory, and quasigroups.

This textbook is suitable for use in an undergraduate course on abstract algebra for mathematics, computer science, and education majors, along with students from other STEM fields.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jonathan Smith is a Professor at Iowa State University. He earned his Ph.D., from Cambridge (England). His research focuses on combinatorics, algebra, and information theory; applications in computer science, physics, and biology.

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Verlag
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1498731619
ISBN 13 
9781498731614
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
340
Kontakt zum Hersteller
CRC Press
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