Table of Contents

Preface / Notations / Preliminaries: Sets and Mappings / Equivalence Relation / The Integers / The Axiom of Choice / Countable and Uncountable Sets / Groups: Definitions and Examples / Subgroups / Cosets and Normal Subgroups / Homomorphisms / Normalizer, Centralizer and Class Equation / Symmetric Groups / Direct Products / Automorphisms / Sylow's Theorems / Applications of Sylow's Theorems / Series of Groups / Finite Abelian Groups / Groups of Small Order / Rings: Definitions and Examples / Ideals and Isomorphism Theorems / Direct Product of Rings / Rings of Polynomials / Fields of Fractions / Prime Ideals and Maximal Ideals / Factorization in Integral Domains / Noetherian Rings / Modules: Definitions and Examples / Module Homomorphisms and Quotient Modules / Direct Sums and Exact Sequences / Free Modules / Free Modules over PIDs / Finitely Generated Modules over PIDs / Projective and Injective Modules / Semisimple Modules / Fields: Field Extensions / Splitting Fields / Algebraically Closed Fields / Normal Extensions / Separable Extensions / Galois Theory / Galois Group of a Polynomial / Radical Extensions / Constructibility / Bibliography / Index.

About the Author

Vivek Sahai.: Department of Mathematics and Astronomy Lucknow University, Lucknow Vikas Bist.: Department of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh