the-pi-guy said:
Awesome! I've seen some positive things about Dover books and they are pretty much always pretty cheap. I think I'll buy that book at some point! Taking some sort of Abstract Algebra course next semester. |
Nice! I was going to ask you your questions, but directed at you. You're a math major as well?
It's all relative (difficulty) depending on your school. I go to a state school so it's not THAT hard in terms of grades. My GPA is like 3.8 which is pretty good for a math major.
That book is really good because it explains things well, but I just wish it did more examples. Because you learn through doing the examples, they give you useful tools for solving other examples. It's also dirt cheap for a math text and covers everything from groups, rings, to Galois theory.
The only issue with that class, for me, is how it's taught. It's taught by the Moore method, which is when the class has to present problems. The professor doesn't always explain things well and some of the material should be taught with more formal lecture than Moore method, especially quotient rings, but it's good if you're looking to one day become a teacher, as he has you explain the problems. Again it's all relative to the course.
For abstract algebra, it's a lot of definitions that you have to know and relate back constantly to previous definitions.
For that book you'll be using cosets, group operations, and certain theorems all throughout the course. Just be sure to know definitions and relate them to problems.
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