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Algebra II

Textbook for Students of Mathematics

  • Challenging amount of material thoughtfully organized for deep and fast learning

  • Large collection of exercises equipped with hints and a lot of problems for independent solution

  • Simple modern explanation of subjects usually omitted in basic courses, such as representations of the symmetric group, geometry of algebraic varieties, meaty aspects of the category theory etc

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Tensor Products

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 1-19
  3. Tensor Algebras

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 21-56
  4. Symmetric Functions

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 57-73
  5. Calculus of Arrays, Tableaux, and Diagrams

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 75-98
  6. Basic Notions of Representation Theory

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 99-129
  7. Representations of Finite Groups in Greater Detail

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 131-150
  8. Representations of Symmetric Groups

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 151-171
  9. \(\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}_{2}\)-Modules

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 173-186
  10. Categories and Functors

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 187-226
  11. Extensions of Commutative Rings

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 227-240
  12. Affine Algebraic Geometry

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 241-263
  13. Algebraic Manifolds

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 265-293
  14. Algebraic Field Extensions

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 295-314
  15. Examples of Galois Groups

    • Alexey L. Gorodentsev
    Pages 315-334
  16. Back Matter

    Pages 335-370

About this book

This book is the second volume of an intensive “Russian-style” two-year undergraduate course in abstract algebra, and introduces readers to the basic algebraic structures – fields, rings, modules, algebras, groups, and categories – and explains the main principles of and methods for working with them.

The course covers substantial areas of advanced combinatorics, geometry, linear and multilinear algebra, representation theory, category theory, commutative algebra, Galois theory, and algebraic geometry – topics that are often overlooked in standard undergraduate courses.

This textbook is based on courses the author has conducted at the Independent University of Moscow and at the Faculty of Mathematics in the Higher School of Economics. The main content is complemented by a wealth of exercises for class discussion, some of which include comments and hints, as well as problems for independent study.



Reviews

“This is the second of a two-volume set of books offering a ‘Russian-style’ intensive introduction to abstract algebra. … Each chapter contains both ‘exercises’ that are imbedded in the text, and ‘problems’ that are collected at the end of each chapter. … In summary, this book, like its predecessor, seems to have been written for mathematicians … .” (Mark Hunacek, MAA Reviews, March, 2017) 

“This textbook contains fourteen chapters furnished with a lot of examples, counterexamples and numerous exercises, some of which are provided with commentary and hints, as well as problems for independent solution that were assigned as homework. … This textbook is self-contained, well written and recommended to undergraduate, graduate and Ph. D. students and it might be very useful for advanced algebra lectures as well.” (Marek Golasiński, zbMATH, Vol. 1365.13001, 2017) 


Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Mathematics, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Moscow, Russia

    Alexey L. Gorodentsev

About the author

A.L. Gorodentsev is professor at the Independent University of Moscow and  at the Faculty of Mathematics at the National Research University „Higher School of Economics“. 

He is working in the field of algebraic and symplectic geometry, homological algebra and representation theory connected with geometry of algebraic and symplectic varieties.

He is one of the first developers of the “Helix Theory” and semiorthogonal decomposition technique for studying the derived categories of coherent sheaves.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Algebra II

  • Book Subtitle: Textbook for Students of Mathematics

  • Authors: Alexey L. Gorodentsev

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50853-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50852-8Published: 22 February 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84507-4Published: 13 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50853-5Published: 12 February 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 370

  • Number of Illustrations: 153 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Algebra

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eBook USD 39.99
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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