Contemporary Abstract Algebra

Joseph A. Gallian

Publisher:

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Publication Date:

2020

Number of Pages:

654

Format:

Hardcover

Edition:

10

Price:

99.95

ISBN:

978-0367651787

Category:

Textbook

BLL Rating:

BLL**

The Basic Library List Committee strongly recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

MAA Review
Table of Contents

[Reviewed by

Benjamin Linowitz

, on

05/29/2021

]

See Richard Wilders's review of the eighth edition.

It has now been 35 years since Gallian's classic textbook Contemporary Abstract Algebra was first published. The book is deservedly popular with instructors of abstract algebra courses. It is written at an appropriate level for junior and senior undergraduates, has lucid coverage of all of the standard topics and several nonstandard ones (Coding Theory, Greek Geometric Construction Problems, etc), is example-driven, and contains thousands of exercises at various levels of difficulty. Moreover, every chapter begins with an interesting quote or two (by as diverse a group of people as Einstein, Miguel de Cervantes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bob Dylan, etc) and most conclude with a mini- biography of a mathematician whose work relates to the chapter's content. This is an interesting book that is a pleasure to read.

According to the Preface, changes made for the tenth edition include: