JACOBSON - BASIC ALGEBRA LL

A classic text and standard reference for a generation this volume and its companion are the work of an expert algebraist who taught at Yale for more than three decades. Nathan Jacobson's books possess a conceptual and theoretical orientation; in addition to their value as classroom texts they serve as valuable references.Volume II comprises all of the subjects usually covered in a first-year graduate course in algebra. Topics include categories universal algebra modules basic structure theory of rings classical representation theory of finite groups elements of homological algebra with applications commutative ideal theory and formally real fields. In addition to the immediate introduction and constant use of categories and functors it revisits many topics from Volume I with greater depth and sophistication. Exercises appear throughout the text along with insightful carefully explained proofs.