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Stay away.Stay far away.
I wish I could offers some nice comments here, but the truth is I really, really don't like this book.You can get it for free at the author's website, but it's not worth the download.If your professor uses this as a class text, I suggest you switch sections.The title says "Introductory" but I'd wager few students for whom this book is intended could wade through it.I've had two semesters of 400-level Algebra and I find parts of this book unreadable. The proofs are sketchy and the examples are few and far between.When I read a math book I like to understand every little thing.Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes to get through a paragraph of this book because I'm constantly wondering where things came from.It seems at times as though the author wrote a beautiful 600-page Algebra book and the publisher decided to randomly chop it down to a couple hundred pages.I give it one star, but only because it included semi-direct products.
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The Gateway to Higher Mathematics
For most people, mathematics is about balancing a check book or computing the stresses on a bridge. I consider this book to be the gateway to higher mathematics that goes beyond "number crunching". It introduces the modern subject of Algebra from first prinicples in a way accessible to all who wish to begin the journey. This book is so well written with hands on examples and problems that it can be used out of the classroom. It can be read for its own beauty or as an introduction to the more advanced texts like Herstein or Hungerford. As a young mathematican in training, it was the first ( and only ) text I have ever seen that actually attempted to define the notion ofproof and the ways to go about constructing them. Loads of motivational material. A must read. Even today, it is still on my bookself and is handed to anyone who asks: "Just what is it that you do..." ... Read more

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