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| Oct 18, 2016 at 18:23 | history | edited | J W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 27, 2014 at 19:52 | comment | added | KCd | I think Pinter would work well as a supplement, but not as a main text. On the plus side, it's Dover and hence not costly. On the minus side, a lot of what I considered to be key material was in exercises or covered too briefly to serve as a main reading assignment. | |
| May 27, 2014 at 16:22 | comment | added | J W | Just to clarify, Pinter tends to introduce much of the material in the exercises. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 20:24 | comment | added | vonbrand | @JW, as I said, introducing abstract algebra needs strong motivation, and that is easiest to provide by concrete applications, i.e., real-world problems. Not abstract enough if you are into the subject for it's own sake, sure. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 20:19 | comment | added | J W | It's a nice introductory book. A strong/weak point, depending on your point of view and students, is that it teaches much of the material using problems. | |
| May 26, 2014 at 13:04 | history | answered | vonbrand | CC BY-SA 3.0 |