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Ask HN: Good textbooks or resources for learning Abstract Algebra?
Anyone who’s studied abstract algebra have any favorite textbooks or resources for learning it? I want to better understand both the symbology and the concepts, particularly those that are prereqs to cryptography and category theory. I would love to find a “Calculus Made Easy” or “SICP” equivalent for abstract algebra - a text that explains it really well.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_algebra
- pizza 7y agoIf you don't get any better suggestions try Dummit and Foote.
- ekr 7y agoAlgebra by "Mac Lane & Birkhoff" was my favorite textbook in college. Really thorough and not quite as dry as Dummit. (https://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Chelsea-Publishing-Saunders-Lane/dp/0821816462 https://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Chelsea-Publishing-Saunders-L...) Mac Lane was also the father of category theory.
- omar_a1 7y agoNot sure that you'll find any "Made Easy"-type (abstract) algebra texts, but my college textbook was "Introduction to Abstract Algebra", by W. Keith Nicholson, for what it's worth.
- koots 7y agoMIT ocw Abstract Algebra course