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Part One The Basic Objects of Algebra
Chapter 1 Groups
1. Monoids
2. Groups
3. Normal subgroups
4. Cyclic groups
5. Operations of a group on a set
6. Sylow subgroups
7. Direct sums and free abelian groups
8. Finitely generated abelian groups
9. The dual group
10. Inverse limit and completion
11. Categories and functors
12. Free groups
Chapter 2 Rings
1. Rings and homomorphisms
2. Commutative rings
3. Polynomials and group rings
4. Localization
5. Principal and factorial rings
Chapter 3 Modules
Chapter 4 Polynomlals
Part Two Algebraic Equations
Chapter 5 Algebralc Extensions
Chapter 6 Galois Theory
Chapter 7 Extensions of Rings
Chapter 8 Transcendental Extensions
Chapter 9 Algebraic Spaces
Chapter 10 Noetherial Rings and Modules
Chapter 11 Real Fields
Chapter 12 Absolute Values
Part Three Liear Alebar and Reqresentations
Chapter 13 Matrices and Linear Maps
Chapter 14 Representatlon of One Endomorphism
Chapter 15 Structure of Bilinear Forms
Chapter 16 The Tensor Product
Chapter 17 Smisimplicity
Chapter 18 Representations of Finite Groups
Chapter 19 The Alternating Product
Part Four Homological Algebra
Chapter 20 General Homology Theory
Chapter 21 Finite Free Resolutions
Appendix 1 The Transcendence of e and
Appendix 2 Some Set Theory
Bibliography
Index