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This chapter presents the background algebra on which the rest of this book depends. Much of this material should be familiar to you.
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Additional Reading for Chapter 1
A. Clark, Elements of Abstract Algebra, Wadsworth, Belmont, California, 1971.
J.B. Fraleigh, A First Course in Abstract Algebra, 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1982.
G.H. Hardy and E.M. Wright, An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers, Clarendon, Oxford, 1960.
I. Niven, Numbers: Rational and Irrational, Random House, New York, 1961.
I. Niven, Irrational Numbers, Carus Mathematical Monographs, No. 11, Mathematical Association of America, 1967.
L.W. Shapiro, Introduction to Abstract Algebra, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1975.
A.M. Tropper, Linear Algebra, Thomas Nelson, London, 1969.
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Jones, A., Pearson, K.R., Morris, S.A. (1991). Algebraic Preliminaries. In: Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities. Universitext. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8552-1_2
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