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W. KEITH NICHOLSON, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has published extensively in his areas of research interest, which include clean rings, morphic rings and modules, and quasi-morphic rings. Dr. Nicholson is the coauthor of Modern Algebra with Applications, Second Edition, also published by Wiley.
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii NOTATION USED IN THE TEXT xix A SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF ALGEBRA TO 1929 xxiii 0 Preliminaries 1 0.1 Proofs / 1 0.2 Sets / 5 0.3 Mappings / 9 0.4 Equivalences / 17 1 Integers and Permutations 23 1.1 Induction / 24 1.2 Divisors and Prime Factorization / 32 1.3 Integers Modulo n / 42 1.4 Permutations / 53 1.5 An Application to Cryptography / 67 2 Groups 69 2.1 Binary Operations / 70 2.2 Groups / 76 2.3 Subgroups / 86 2.4 Cyclic Groups and the Order of an Element / 90 2.5 Homomorphisms and Isomorphisms / 99 2.6 Cosets and Lagranges Theorem / 108 2.7 Groups of Motions and Symmetries / 117 2.8 Normal Subgroups / 122 2.9 Factor Groups / 131 2.10 The Isomorphism Theorem / 137 2.11 An Application to Binary Linear Codes / 143 3 Rings 159 3.1 Examples and Basic Properties / 160 3.2 Integral Domains and Fields / 171 3.3 Ideals and Factor Rings / 180 3.4 Homomorphisms / 189 3.5 Ordered Integral Domains / 199 4 Polynomials 202 4.1 Polynomials / 203 4.2 Factorization of Polynomials Over a Field / 214 4.3 Factor Rings of Polynomials Over a Field / 227 4.4 Partial Fractions / 236 4.5 Symmetric Polynomials / 239 4.6 Formal Construction of Polynomials / 248 5 Factorization in Integral Domains 251 5.1 Irreducibles and Unique Factorization / 252 5.2 Principal Ideal Domains / 264 6 Fields 274 6.1 Vector Spaces / 275 6.2 Algebraic Extensions / 283 6.3 Splitting Fields / 291 6.4 Finite Fields / 298 6.5 Geometric Constructions / 304 6.6 The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra / 308 6.7 An Application to Cyclic and BCH Codes / 310 7 Modules over Principal Ideal Domains 324 7.1 Modules / 324 7.2 Modules Over a PID / 335 8 p-Groups and the Sylow Theorems 349 8.1 Products and Factors / 350 8.2 Cauchys Theorem / 357 8.3 Group Actions / 364 8.4 The Sylow Theorems / 371 8.5 Semidirect Products / 379 8.6 An Application to Combinatorics / 382 9 Series of Subgroups 388 9.1 The JordanHolder Theorem / 389 9.2 Solvable Groups / 395 9.3 Nilpotent Groups / 401 10 Galois Theory 412 10.1 Galois Groups and Separability / 413 10.2 The Main Theorem of Galois Theory / 422 10.3 Insolvability of Polynomials / 434 10.4 Cyclotomic Polynomials and Wedderburns Theorem / 442 11 Finiteness Conditions for Rings and Modules 447 11.1 Wedderburns Theorem / 448 11.2 The WedderburnArtin Theorem / 457 Appendices 471 Appendix A Complex Numbers / 471 Appendix B Matrix Algebra / 478 Appendix C Zorns Lemma / 486 Appendix D Proof of the Recursion Theorem / 490 BIBLIOGRAPHY 492 SELECTED ANSWERS 495 INDEX 523