Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973. First Edition, 2nd Printing . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/tidy pencil check marks on pgs 13, 14, 25, 31 & 38 (exercises at chapters' end), else as new. Red cloth boards/NF w/trace wear. DJ/None. First published in 1973, this textbook designed for a 1-year course on algebra is distinguished by concurrent emphasis on the historical development of the subject; a facsimile reprint was issued in 1997, also from Prentice-Hall. Outgrowth of lecture notes, the volume's 10 chapters are: 1, Introduction (Historical Perspectives); 2, Set Theory & Arithmetic; 3, The Theory of Groups; 4, The Theory of Rings; 5, Unique Factorization; 6, Vector Spaces; 7, The Theory of Fields; 8, The Theory of Groups, II; 9, Galois Theory; and, 10, Conclusion. Fine copy less dust jacket.

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Bookseller: 100 POCKETS (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004595
Title: ABSTRACT ALGEBRA : A First Course
Author: Goldstein, Larry Joel
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition, 2nd Printing
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Place of Publication: Englewood Cliffs, NJ
Date Published: 1973
Keywords: Mathematics/Textbook/Abstract Algebra
Bookseller catalogs: Memoir; Mathematics;

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