Post a picture of your course abstract algebra textbook and rate it out of 10 points.

Mine, 7/10. Could have had more examples.

I read like half of Fraleigh. It was OK.

>>16706377 (OP)
all you really need unless you’re doing something like algebraic geometry

I thought algebra already was abstract... what the fuck

>>16706457
>t. the anon who couldn't understand coefficients

>>16706461
I mean I understand them in a scalar/vector/matrix sense as constants or paramates multiplied with whatever variables of interest. But functional coefficients? Manifoldian coefficients?Fiber bundle tangent coefficients? I have no idea

>>16706468
>>16706461
for example if i have a sequence and it has some indexes, if one of those indexes have some parameter multiplied by them, is that a coefficient of the sequence?

>>16706377 (OP)
Neat. I didn’t know those guys had a texbook. Are you at Waterloo, or is this book getting used somewhete else?

>>16706549
self study

>>16706971
Right on. Well I can tell you the book that John Lawrence always used to shilled: Rotman. Also, the standard Dummit and Foote one is fine. I tried some Sergelangshit and it was shit.

One non-textbook recommendation is: try implementing some algebra shit like grobner basis on a computer. It’s easy these days with Python. Specialized algebra software is usually a nightmare, like macaulay2, but Python is easy and a transferable skill

>>16706414
>springer
into the trashbin it goes.

>>16707203
>he looks at the publisher and not the author
holy filtered

>>16706457
It is, that's why it's called just algebra in real books. Only American undergrad slop call it "abstract algebra".

>>16707405
>graduate texts
>algebra
pfft! I learned that in middle school. Mathfags must really be low IQ if they're still trying to master algebra in grad school.

>>16707407
>middle school
Lmao. Tell me you’re an ESL without telling me. Stupid eurofag

I really liked "algebra chapter 0". It presents two formalisms, one that is classical (where everything is derived from sets) and the other that is categorical.

>>16707431
>American doesn’t get the joke
this is a certified hood classic

Bump

>>16707574
>3rdie has a separate “middle school”
Go kick a soccer ball Jorge

>>16707725
>he doesnt have high medium low school

>>16707431
Are you retarded or something? I'm American, and I literally went to "middle school" in between elementary and high school. Don't tell me you are one of those people who calls it "Jr. High?"

>>16707562
>It presents two formalisms
I've heard of the book, but didn't know this. I really should read it, I suppose.

>>16706377 (OP)
I used the book by Fraleigh. For a retard like me, it was good for self study. But it will only take you so far.

>>16708070
What do you mean by
>But it will only take you so far.
What do you mean by saying this?

>>16708180
You can learn the subject more deeply from other books.

>>16707407
>tfw still getting filtered by arithmetic.

>>16709008
>americans don't learn arithmetic until GRAD SCHOOL
wtf bro???
we mastered that shit by third grade!
in china they finish arithmetic in preschool
the west is truly lost

>>16710004
This is what happens when people try to teach this to 3rd graders. The future looks grim indeed.

>>16710004
>Americans
Serre is French albeit

>>16710004
is this bait? this book isnt about anything children are being taught lmao

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4684-9884-4