Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Notation Used in The Text |
A Sketch of the History of Algebra to 1929 |
Preliminaries / 0: |
Proofs / 0.1: |
Sets / 0.2: |
Mappings / 0.3: |
Equivalences / 0.4: |
Integers and Permutations / 1: |
Induction / 1.1: |
Divisors and Prime Factorization / 1.2: |
Integers Modulo n / 1.3: |
Permutations / 1.4: |
An Application to Cryptography / 1.5: |
Groups / 2: |
Binary Operations / 2.1: |
Subgroups / 2.2: |
Cyclic Groups and the Order of an Element / 2.4: |
Homomorphisms and Isomorphisms / 2.5: |
Cosets and Lagrange's Theorem / 2.6: |
Groups of Motions and Symmetries / 2.7: |
Normal Subgroups / 2.8: |
Factor Groups / 2.9: |
The Isomorphism Theorem / 2.10: |
An Application to Binary Linear Codes / 2.11: |
Rings / 3: |
Examples and Basic Properties / 3.1: |
Integral Domains and Fields / 3.2: |
Ideals and Factor Rings / 3.3: |
Homomorphisms / 3.4: |
Ordered Integral Domains / 3.5: |
Polynomials / 4: |
Factorization of Polynomials Over a Field / 4.1: |
Factor Rings of Polynomials Over a Field / 4.3: |
Partial Fractions / 4.4: |
Symmetric Polynomials / 4.5: |
Formal Construction of Polynomials / 4.6: |
Factorization in Integral Domains / 5: |
Irreducibles and Unique Factorization / 5.1: |
Principal Ideal Domains / 5.2: |
Fields / 6: |
Vector Spaces / 6.1: |
Algebraic Extensions / 6.2: |
Splitting Fields / 6.3: |
Finite Fields / 6.4: |
Geometric Constructions / 6.5: |
The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra / 6.6: |
An Application to Cyclic and BCH Codes / 6.7: |
Modules over Principal Ideal Domains / 7: |
Modules / 7.1: |
Modules Over a PID / 7.2: |
p-Groups and the Sylow Theorems / 8: |
Products and Factors / 8.1: |
Cauchy's Theorem / 8.2: |
Group Actions / 8.3: |
The Sylow Theorems / 8.4: |
Semidirect Products / 8.5: |
An Application to Combinatorics / 8.6: |
Series of Subgroups / 9: |
The Jordan-Hölder Theorem / 9.1: |
Solvable Groups / 9.2: |
Nilpotent Groups / 9.3: |
Galois Theory / 10: |
Galois Groups and Separability / 10.1: |
The Main Theorem of Galois Theory / 10.2: |
Insolvability of Polynomials / 10.3: |
Cyclotomic Polynomials and Wedderburn's Theorem / 10.4: |
Finiteness Conditions for Rings and Modules / 11: |
Wedderburn's Theorem / 11.1: |
The Wedderburn-Artin Theorem / 11.2: |
Appendices |
Complex Numbers / Appendix A: |
Matrix Algebra / Appendix B: |
Zorn's Lemma / Appendix C: |
Proof of the Recursion Theorem / Appendix D: |
Bibliography |
Selected Answers |
Index |
Preface |
Acknowledgments |
Notation Used in The Text |