文档介绍：Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Editors:
S. Axler
K. Ribet
Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
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Lindsay N. Childs
A Concrete Introduction
to Higher Algebra
Third edition
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Lindsay N. Childs
University at Albany
State University of New York
Department of Mathematics
1400 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY 12222
USA
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S. Axler . Ribet
Mathematics Department Mathematics Department
San Francisco State University University of California at Berkeley
San Francisco, CA 94132 Berkeley, CA 94720
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ISSN: 0172-6056
ISBN: 978-0-387-74527-5 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-74725-5
DOI: -0-387-74725-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939988
Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 12-01
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Acknowledgements
My thanks to the numerous colleagues at Albany who have used mented
on the book over the years, including Lou Brickman, Ed Davis, Hugh Gordon, Bill
Hammond, Ben Jamison, Tom MacGregor, Antun Milas, Malcolm Smiley, Anupam
Srivastav, Mark Steinberger, Ted Turner and Don Wilken. Among those elsewhere
who have prov