A Book of Abstract Algebra
Charles C. Pinter
12 people recommended it in 9 threads, 2016–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
For abstract algebra, take a look at Pinter's "A Book of Abstract Algebra" [1]. It's a Dover republication, so is not expensive. It has a lot of exercises...in many chapters more than half the pages are exercises.
The preface and chapter 1 of A Book of Abstract Algebra by Charles C. Pinter has an excellent discussion of a certain perspective of mathematics.
A pretty good book for abstract algebra is Pinter's "A Book of Abstract Algebra". It's rigorous but not overly terse and provides enough examples and applications as it goes to motivate the student.
I don't like the typical definition-theorem-proof approach of most textbook in mathematics, including these. It's great for a classroom, no good for self-study. As an alternative, I highly recommend A Book of Abstract Algebra by Pinter.
A book of abstract algebra - Charles C. Pinter. Each chapter is a few pages of explanation, and the rest you solve yourself by doing exercises that introduce aspects of the theory step by step.
A book of abstract algebra: makes algebra, fields and so on just click
Pinter's book is very easy to read and great for self-study.
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