| Integers, Polynomials, and Rings: A Course in Algebra 2004 Edition Contributor(s): Irving, Ronald S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387403973 ISBN-13: 9780387403977 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $90.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2004 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Algebra - General - Mathematics | Algebra - Abstract |
| Dewey: 512 |
| LCCN: 2003059135 |
| Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.34 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book began life as a set of notes that I developed for a course at the University of Washington entitled Introduction to Modern Algebra for Tea- ers. Originally conceived as a text for future secondary-school mathematics teachers, it has developed into a book that could serve well as a text in an - dergraduatecourseinabstractalgebraoracoursedesignedasanintroduction to higher mathematics. This book di?ers from many undergraduate algebra texts in fundamental ways; the reasons lie in the book's origin and the goals I set for the course. The course is a two-quarter sequence required of students intending to f- ?ll the requirements of the teacher preparation option for our B.A. degree in mathematics, or of the teacher preparation minor. It is required as well of those intending to matriculate in our university's Master's in Teaching p- gram for secondary mathematics teachers. This is the principal course they take involving abstraction and proof, and they come to it with perhaps as little background as a year of calculus and a quarter of linear algebra. The mathematical ability of the students varies widely, as does their level of ma- ematical interest. |
