First Course in Abstract Algebra A
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, CONTENTS
1. Setsn andn Relations 1
I. Groups and Subgroups
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2. Introductionn andn Examples 4
3. Binaryn Operations 7
4. Isomorphicn Binaryn Structures 9
5. Groups 13
6. Subgroups 17
7. Cyclicnn Groups 21
8. Generatorsn andn Cayleyn Digraphs 24
II. Permutations, Cosets, and Direct Products
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9. Groupsn ofnPermutations 26
10. Orbits,nCycles,nandnthenAlternatingnGroups
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11. Cosetsn andnthen Theoremnofn Lagrange 34
12. Directn Productsn andn Finitelyn Generatedn Abeliann Groups 37
13. Planen Isometries 42
III. Homomorphisms and Factor Groupsn n n
14. Homomorphisms 44
15. Factorn Groups 49
16. Factor-Groupn Computationsn andn Simplen Groups 53
17. GroupnActionnonnanSet 58
18. ApplicationsnofnG-SetsntonCounting 61
IV. Rings and Fields
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19. RingsnandnFields 63
20. Integraln Domains 68
21. Fermat’sn andn Euler’sn Theorems 72
22. Then Fieldn ofn Quotientsn ofn ann Integraln Domain 74
23. Ringsn ofn Polynomials 76
24. FactorizationnofnPolynomialsnovernanField 79
25. NoncommutativenExamples 85
26. Orderedn Ringsn andn Fields 87
V. Ideals and Factor Rings
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27. HomomorphismsnandnFactornRings 89
28. PrimenandnMaximalnIdeals 94
, 29. GröbnernBasesnfornIdeals 99