Abstract Algebra with Applications: Volume 1: Vector Spaces and GroupsA comprehensive presentation of abstract algebra and an in-depth treatment of the applications of algebraic techniques and the relationship of algebra to other disciplines, such as number theory, combinatorics, geometry, topology, differential equations, and Markov chains. |
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Contents
VECTOR SPACES | 1 |
Examples from geometry 1 Vectors as equivalence classes of arrows 2 Addition | 19 |
Examples from electrical engineering and economics 22 Fields 24 Matrices 25 | 42 |
Vector spaces | 49 |
Polynomial and power series rings | 54 |
Vector spaces and subspaces 49 Examples 50 Free and generating sets 54 Bases | 55 |
Dimension 58 Dimension formula for subspaces 58 Direct decompositions 59 Quo | 65 |
Polynomials in one or more variables 54 Division with remainder 57 Roots and their | 67 |
Pure inseparability 275 Decomposition of an algebraic field extension into a separable | 278 |
Field theory and integral ring extensions | 291 |
Scalar products 273 Orthogonality 276 Orthogonal decompositions 279 Orthonor | 296 |
Affine algebras 301 Noethers normalization theorem 302 Zariskis lemma 304 | 304 |
Ring theory and algebraic geometry | 318 |
Adjoint of a linear mapping 303 Properties 304 Trace and operator norm 306 Nor | 324 |
Bilinear forms | 331 |
Affine varieties 318 Correspondence between varieties and ideals 322 Hilberts Null | 342 |
Linear and affine mappings | 72 |
Ideals 76 Ideals generated by a set 77 Principal ideals 77 Simple rings 78 Quotient | 86 |
phism theorem 82 Dimension formula for linear mappings 83 Vector spaces of linear | 88 |
Abstract affine geometry | 95 |
Affine spaces and subspaces 95 Dimension formula for affine subspaces 99 Affine | 105 |
Primary decompositions 102 Symbolic powers 105 Exercises | 107 |
Representation of linear mappings by matrices | 111 |
Parameterizations basis isomorphisms and coordinate transformations 111 Matrix | 119 |
principal ideal domains 119 Euclidean domains 119 Examples 120 Euclidean algo | 128 |
to equivalence 122 Similarity of square matrices 124 Canonical forms for projections | 130 |
Determinants | 138 |
Determinants as natural constructions in elimination theory 138 Existence and unique | 154 |
Transmission of the unique factorization property from R to Rx1 xn 135 Unique | 155 |
product by minors of the individual factors 165 Determinant of an endomorphism as | 173 |
Quadratic reciprocity law 166 Three theorems of Fermat 169 RamanujanNagell the | 178 |
Gershgorins theorem 183 Geometric and algebraic multiplicity 185 Diagonalizability | 186 |
Modules 185 Free modules 185 Submodules and quotient modules 186 Module | 196 |
Classification of endomorphisms up to similarity | 205 |
Cohens theorem 205 Noetherian induction 208 Primary decompositions in Noethe | 215 |
Field extensions | 216 |
Determinantal and elementary divisors 219 Exercises | 223 |
Characterization of simple extensions 227 Algebraically generating and independent | 238 |
Complexification 230 Tensor product of vector spaces 231 Properties 232 Basefield | 245 |
Adjoining roots of polynomials 248 Splitting fields 250 Normal extensions 250 | 262 |
Oriented areas and volumes 255 Vector product 258 Applications in geometry | 268 |
of alternating forms 341 Pfaffian 342 Classification of real symmetric forms by rank | 358 |
Tangent space of a variety at a point 348 Regular and singular points 351 Coinci | 361 |
Factorization of ideals | 365 |
Solving polynomial equations | 379 |
Grouptheoretical interpretation of the Gaussian algorithm 373 Gaussian decompo | 384 |
Markov processes 393 Transition matrices and graphs 393 Examples 394 Longterm | 400 |
Galois group of a field extension 388 Examples 388 Fixed fields 390 Correspondence | 401 |
405 Cyclic classes 407 Mean first passage matrix 411 Examples in genetics 413 | 413 |
Galois groups of finite fields 413 Primitive element theorem 414 Constructions with | 429 |
Examples from electrical engineering and economics 424 Existence and uniqueness | 444 |
Galois groups of cubic and quartic polynomials 443 Galois groups of certain polyno | 450 |
Symmetries in art and nature 451 Symmetry transformations 453 Types of one | 460 |
Roots of unity 455 Cyclotomic polynomials 457 Irreducibility of the cyclotomic poly | 463 |
Subgroups and cosets | 476 |
Lagranges theorem 487 Applications in number theory 488 Exercises | 489 |
Cycle decomposition 498 Cyclestructure and conjugacy 498 Generating sets | 505 |
522 Exercises | 523 |
groups 536 Semidirect products 537 Exercises | 541 |
Free groups 549 Universal property 550 Generators and relations 553 Von Dycks | 557 |
Torsion subgroup of an abelian group 557 Classification of finitely generated abelian | 570 |
Group actions 575 Examples 575 Orbits and stabilizers 577 Transitivity 577 | 591 |
Actions of groups on groups and coset spaces 596 Class equation 597 Deriving struc | 604 |
of finite nilpotent groups 617 Affine subgroups of Sym 617 Characterization of | 622 |
Topological groups and their subgroups 624 Continuous homomorphisms 628 Iso | 641 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Abstract Algebra with Applications: Volume 1: Vector Spaces and Groups Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics |
| Author | Karlheinz Spindler |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | CRC Press, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0824791444, 9780824791445 |
| Length | 776 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / General Mathematics / Number Systems |
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