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9780486671215
This advanced undergraduate-level introductory textbook first addresses groups, rings, fields and polynomials, then provides coverage of Galois theory and the proof of the unsolvability by radicals of the general equations of degree 5. With many examples, illustrations, commentaries and exercises. Includes 13 appendices. Recommended for teacher education by The American Mathematical Monthly. 1971 edition.Maxfield, John E. is the author of 'Abstract Algebra and Solution by Radicals', published 1992 under ISBN 9780486671215 and ISBN 0486671216.
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