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From the back cover: "The broad scope of topics encompasses Euclid's algorithm; congruences; polynomials; complex numbers and algebraic fields; algebraic integers, ideals, and
p -adic numbers; groups; the Galois theory of equations; algebraic geometry, matrices and determinants; invariants and tensors; algebras; group algebras; and more.
'It is refreshing to find a book which deals briefly but competently with a variety of concatenated algebraic topics, that is not written for the specialist,' enthused the
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries Students' Society about this volume, adding 'Littlewood's book can be unreservedly recommended.'"
CHAPTERS
- The Method of Abstraction
- Numbers
- Euclid's Algorithm
- Congruences
- Polynomials
- Complex Numbers and Algebraic Fields
- Algebraic Integers, Ideals and p-adic Numbers
- Groups
- The Galois Theory of Equations
- Algebraic Geometry
- Matrices and Determinants
- Invariants and Tensors
- Algebras
- Group Algebras
- The Symmetric Group
- Continuous Groups
- Application to Invariants
Note from the publisher: "This Dover edition, first published in 2002, is an unabridged republication of the work first published by Hutchinson & Company, Limited, London, in 1949 and reprinted by Harper & Brothers, New York, in 1960."
