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The 2018 Annual Edition is in preparation, and will be available as hardcover and paperback in mid-August. See Purchase page for details.
The 2018 Annual Edition is now available. Electronic editions have been updated. Print is available as either hardcover or paperback - see the Purchase page for details.
Spanish Edition 2017 now available.
2017 Annual Edition now available in electronic formats. Hardcover version also available from online bookstores for less than $26, see the Purchase page for details.
2017 Annual Edition now available in electronic formats. Hardcover version to be widely available soon. ISBN will be 9781944325053.
From the links below you can download a PDF version of Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications and the corresponding PreTeXt source which is licensed under the GFDL.
+From the links below you can download a PDF version of Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications and the corresponding PreTeXt source which is licensed under the GFDL.
-Note: The 2017 Annual Edition has been finalized. See the note about the various Editions and changes.
+Note: The 2018 Annual Edition has been finalized. See the note about the various Editions and changes.
-The current edition is for the 2017-18 academic year, with only minor modifications to the content from the previous year's edition. It also verifies and updates substantial material about Sage to Version 8.0, available in two electronic forms (see Sage and AATA). The 2009 PDF version is very close to the original text, as first published by PWS Publishing Company in 1994. Since then, the copyright has transferred back to the author, making this open source version possible. (A full copy of the copyright transfer is distributed with the source code in the local subdirectory).
+The current edition is for the 2018-19 academic year, with only minor modifications to the content from the previous year's edition. It also verifies and updates substantial material about Sage to Version 8.2, available online, and in a special PDF version (see Sage and AATA). The 2009 PDF version is very close to the original text, as first published by PWS Publishing Company in 1994. Since then, the copyright has transferred back to the author, making this open source version possible. (A full copy of the copyright transfer is distributed with the source code in the local subdirectory).
-A print-on-demand version is the most affordable way to get a physical copy of the entire text. However, a PDF version optimized for print (two-sided, no color, etc.) is made available here for your convenience.
+A print-on-demand version is the most affordable way to get a physical copy (hardcover or paperback) of the entire text. However, a PDF version optimized for print (two-sided, no color, etc.) is made available here for your convenience.
Note: A PDF version that includes all the supplemental material about Sage is available for download from the Sage and AATA page.
Source code is available in a git repository, hosted at GitHub, and authored with PreTeXt. Prior to the 2015 edition, the source code was LaTeX and was primarily hosted at bitbucket.org.
+Source code is available in a git repository, hosted at GitHub, and authored with PreTeXt. Prior to the 2015 edition, the source code was LaTeX and was primarily hosted at bitbucket.org.
Periodically a current snapshot of the book as a PDF is available here. These are not archived, nor tagged in the source code repository. They simply accumulate fixes or additions made to annual official releases. If there is nothing listed here, then use the current Annual Edition.
- + +The absolute most recent version is available as source code through a git repository at github.com, the specific address is @@ -88,6 +91,9 @@
The first half of the book presents group theory, through the Sylow theorems, with enough material for a semester-long course. The second-half is suitable for a second semester and presents rings, integral domains, Boolean algebras, vector spaces, and fields, concluding with Galois Theory.
-This textbook has more freedom than most (but see some exceptions). First, there is no cost to acquire this text, and you are under no obligation whatsoever to compensate or donate to the author or publisher. So in this most basic sense, it is a free textbook. Therefore you can also make as many copies as you like, ensuring that the book will never go out-of-print. You may modify copies of the book for your own use - for example, you may wish to change to a prefered notation for certain objects or add a few new sections. There is a copyright on the book, and subsequently it is licensed with a GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). It is this combination that allows the author to give you greater freedoms in how you use the text, thus liberating it from some of the antiquated notions of copyright that apply to books in physical form. The main caveat is that if you make modifications and then distribute a modified version, you are required to again apply the GFDL license to the result so that others may benefit from your modifications.
+This textbook has more freedom than most (but see some exceptions). First, there is no cost to acquire this text, and you are under no obligation whatsoever to compensate or donate to the author or publisher. So in this most basic sense, it is a free textbook. Therefore you can also make as many copies as you like, ensuring that the book will never go out-of-print. You may modify copies of the book for your own use - for example, you may wish to change to a prefered notation for certain objects or add a few new sections. There is a copyright on the book, and subsequently it is licensed with a GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). It is this combination that allows the author to give you greater freedoms in how you use the text, thus liberating it from some of the antiquated notions of copyright that apply to books in physical form. The main caveat is that if you make modifications and then distribute a modified version, you are required to again apply the GFDL license to the result so that others may benefit from your modifications.
diff --git a/abstract.ups.edu/purchase.html b/abstract.ups.edu/purchase.html index 5691e877..576f762a 100644 --- a/abstract.ups.edu/purchase.html +++ b/abstract.ups.edu/purchase.html @@ -25,23 +25,23 @@This text is free to download, but if you are doing more than just browsing, then purchasing a print copy is less expensive than printing it on a laser printer, less expensive than a single copy (unbound) at a copy shop, and very close to prices charged by copy shops when ordering multiple copies at a discount. Before ordering, you might want to examine an evaluation copy.
+This text is free to download, but if you are doing more than just browsing, then purchasing a paperback print copy is much less expensive than printing it on a laser printer, significantly less expensive than a single copy (unbound) at a copy shop, and even less than prices charged by copy shops when ordering multiple copies at a discount. And for just a few dollars more you can have a hardback version. Before ordering, you might want to examine an evaluation copy.
NOTE (2015-08-23): Be certain to read the note below about changes made in the 2015 Annual edition before purchasing an older hard copy, new or used.
- + -NOTE (2018-08-03): You can find hardback copies of the 2017 Annual Edition of AATA for sale at various online book merchants. But the 2018 Annual Edition will very soon also be available at these same online merchants, so you may want to wait a few days. The ISBNs for the 2018 Edition will be: 978-1-944325-07-7 (hardcover) and 978-1-944325-06-0 (paperback).
- -A nicely printed and bound (hardback) copy of the 2017 Edition of AATA can be purchased for less than $26. It is available at your favorite online retailer or by special order from your local or college bookstore. This is a service provided by Lon Mitchell of Orthogonal Publishing. The author, while supportive of this edition, is not involved directly in any way, including financially. The ISBN for the 2017 Edition is: 9781944325053.
+A nicely printed and bound (hardcover or paperback) copy of the 2018 Edition of AATA can be purchased for less than $18 (price at the start of the Fall 2018 semester). It is available at your favorite online retailer or by special order from your local or college bookstore. This is a service provided by Lon Mitchell of Orthogonal Publishing. The author, while supportive of this edition, is not involved directly in any way, including financially. The ISBNs for the 2018 Edition are: 978-1-944325-07-7 (hardcover) and 978-1-944325-06-0 (paperback).
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+There have been some discrepancies in numbering in earlier editions as the open source version has evolved and improved. @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
+
Sage is an open-source program for doing mathematics and is the ideal companion to Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications. Sage is designed to be a free, open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica and Matlab. It includes many mature and powerful open-source tools for mathematics, such as GAP for group theory. With a strength in number theory, Sage also has excellent support for rings and fields.
-Rob Beezer has contributed extensive material about studying abstract algebra concepts with Sage, and instruction in the use of Sage itself. Each chapter (except one, Matrix Groups and Symmetry
) has an extensive discussion of how to profitably use Sage. For most chapters (except two), these discussions are followed by classroom-tested exercises, ranging from very computational to open-ended guided explorations. In total there are 710 examples of Sage code and 121 exercises. These examples are run through automated testing every six months with the latest version of Sage, so are highly reliable.
Rob Beezer has contributed extensive material about studying abstract algebra concepts with Sage, and instruction in the use of Sage itself. Each chapter (except one, Matrix Groups and Symmetry
) has an extensive discussion of how to profitably use Sage. For most chapters (except two), these discussions are followed by classroom-tested exercises, ranging from very computational to open-ended guided explorations. In total there are 710 examples of Sage code and 121 exercises. These examples are run through automated testing twice a year using the latest stable version of Sage, so are highly reliable.
All of this material is included in the online version, where the Sage examples are executable and editable, via the free, zero-configuration Sage Cell server. The PDF download below is a static version of the online version and includes all the Sage material, where the examples have sample output included.
- -There was once a tutorial here, and we have left the PDF available. It is now obsolete and is no longer being maintained. If you have a link pointing here, you might wish to adjust the description of what is actually available.