ABSTRACT ALGEBRA: A Study Guide for Beginners
ABSTRACT ALGEBRA:
A STUDY GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS
John A. Beachy
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Northern Illinois University
This study guide is intended for students
who are working through the Third Edition of our textbook
Abstract Algebra
(co-authored with William D. Blair).
The guide is focused on solved problems,
and my goal is to help students learn how to do proofs,
as well as computations.
The number of problems can be quite overwhelming,
so if you don't have enough time to try all of the solved problems,
you can at least read the solutions.
The files are in pdf format, suitable for viewing with
Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Please note that this study guide differs substantially from the
Online Study Guide.
The study guide is currently still under revision.
The latest draft
166 pages, pdf format
In this draft (posted 12/29/2008),
the study guide is very close to final form.
There are more than 500 problems,
and over half of these problems
have full solutions in the study guide.
I still hope to add answers for many of the computational problems
that do not have solutions.
Please send me email if you find typos or mathematical mistakes.
The previous version of the study guide,
written to accompany the second edition of
Abstract Algebra,
is still available
here.
Please note that it does not contain nearly as many problems
as the revised study guide available above.
If you own the second edition of the text,
you can probably still make sense of the references
in the study guide for the third edition,
since very few theorems changed numbers
between the second and third editions of our text.