Abstract Algebra with Applications: Volume 2: Rings and Fields (Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics) - Hardcover

." . .these two volumes constitute an outstanding and unique text on algebra and its various applications, which is matchlessly rich in content, comprehensive and well-arranged. . .[a] masterpiece. . . .the mathematical community should have good reason to be grateful to the author for having added a new standard text to the existing literature. . .with many distinctive and unique features, and. . .comparable to the celebrated standard texts. . ..Due to its peerless width of the material. . .this textbook. . .is certainly predestined to become an indispensable tool kit for everyone needing and using algebraic methods." ---Zentralblatt fur Mathematik

A 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.