Modern Algebra: An Introduction

This book presents an introduction to modern (abstract) algebra covering the basic ideas of groups, rings, and fields. The first part of the book treats ideas that are important but neither abstract nor complicated, and provides practice in handling mathematical statements - their meaning, quantification, negation, and proof. This edition features a new section to give more substance to the introduction to Galois theory, updated lists of references and discussions of topics such as Fermat's Last Theorem and the finite simple groups.John R. Durbin is the author of 'Modern Algebra: An Introduction', published 1991 under ISBN 9780471510017 and ISBN 0471510017.