First Course in Abstract Algebra A
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oo 8th Edition by John B. Fraleigh
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o All Chapters Full Complete
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, CONTENTS
1. Sets o and o Relations 1
I. Groups and Subgroups
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2. Introduction o and o Examples 4
3. Binary o Operations 7
4. Isomorphic o Binary o Structures 9
5. Groups 13
6. Subgroups 17
7. Cyclic o o Groups 21
8. Generators o and o Cayley o Digraphs 24
II. Permutations, Cosets, and Direct Products
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9. Groups o of oPermutations 26
10. Orbits, oCycles, oand othe oAlternating oGroups
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11. Cosets o and othe o Theorem o of o Lagrange 34
12. Direct o Products o and o Finitely o Generated o Abelian o Groups 37
13. Plane o Isometries 42
III. Homomorphisms and Factor Groups o o o
14. Homomorphisms 44
15. Factor o Groups 49
16. Factor-Group o Computations o and o Simple o Groups 53
17. Group oAction oon oa oSet 58
18. Applications oof oG-Sets oto oCounting 61
IV. Rings and Fields
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19. Rings oand oFields 63
20. Integral o Domains 68
21. Fermat’s o and o Euler’s o Theorems 72
22. The o Field o of o Quotients o of o an o Integral o Domain 74
23. Rings o of o Polynomials 76
24. Factorization oof oPolynomials oover oa oField 79
25. Noncommutative oExamples 85
26. Ordered o Rings o and o Fields 87
V. Ideals and Factor Rings
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27. Homomorphisms oand oFactor oRings 89
28. Prime oand oMaximal oIdeals 94
,29. Gröbner oBases ofor oIdeals 99
, VI. Extension Fields o
30. Introduction oto oExtension oFields 103
31. Vector o Spaces 107
32. Algebraic o Extensions 111
33. Geometric oConstructions 115
34. Finite o Fields 116
VII. Advanced Group Theory
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35. IsomorphismoTheorems 117
36. Series oof oGroups 119
37. Sylow o Theorems 122
38. Applications o of o the o Sylow o Theory 124
39. Free o Abelian o Groups 128
40. Free oGroups 130
41. Group o Presentations 133
VIII. Groups in Topology
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42. Simplicial o Complexes o and o Homology o Groups 136
43. Computations oof o Homology oGroups 138
44. More oHomology oComputations oand oApplications 140
45. Homological oAlgebra 144
IX. Factorization
46. Unique o Factorization o Domains 148
47. Euclidean o Domains 151
48. Gaussian o Integers o and o Multiplicative o Norms 154
X. Automorphisms and Galois Theory
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49. Automorphisms oof oFields 159
50. The o Isomorphism o Extension o Theorem 164
51. Splitting o Fields 165
52. Separable oExtensions 167
53. Totally oInseparable oExtensions 171
54. Galois o Theory 173
55. Illustrations oofoGalois oTheory 176
56. CyclotomicoExtensions 183
57. Insolvability o of o the o Quintic 185
APPENDIX o o Matrix o o Algebra 187
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