ENGLISH

Basic Notions of Algebra

By Igor R. Shafarevich , M. Reid , Aleksej I. Kostrikin

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2005
ISBN
3-540-25177-4, 978-3-540-25177-4
Open Library ID
OL17192304M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14359926 bytes)
Series
Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences
Pages
280\280
Topic
Mathematics Algebra
Library
torrents.ru tech collections 2009-11-14
Time added
2010-01-11 02:35:34

Description

This book is wholeheartedly recommended to every student or user of mathematics. Although the author modestly describes his book as 'merely an attempt to talk about' algebra, he succeeds in writing an extremely original and highly informative essay on algebra and its place in modern mathematics and science. From the fields, commutative rings and groups studied in every university math course, through Lie groups and algebras to cohomology and category theory, the author shows how the origins of each algebraic concept can be related to attempts to model phenomena in physics or in other branches of mathematics. Comparable in style with Hermann Weyl's evergreen essay The Classical Groups, Shafarevich's new book is sure to become required reading for mathematicians, from beginners to experts.

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