Book Overview
This advanced undergraduate-level introductory textbook first addresses groups, rings, fields and polynomials, then provides coverage of Galois theory and the proof of the unsolvability by radicals of the general equations of degree 5. With many examples, illustrations, commentaries and exercises. Includes 13 appendices. Recommended for teacher education by The American Mathematical Monthly. 1971 edition.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140315950
ISBN13:9780140315950
Release Date:March 1988
Publisher:Puffin Books
Length:320 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Age Range:9 to 12 years
Grade Range:Grades 4 to 7
Customer Reviews
1 rating
why's it out of print???
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is probably one of the best books I've ever read. Novels. It's very simple, from the speech to the layout, but it's dealt with so beautifully that even the macabre side isn't disturbing. Set in the sometimes-seamy underworld of the 18th century, it starts with an odd-job boy who becomes apprenticed to a lamplighter after doing the man a favour. Then, as the year goes by, it's woven in with the tales of eleven other apprentices. From the undertaker's daughter on Valentine's Day to the wig maker's assistant charming girls for their hair, there are tales of love, either lost or won, of misery, or just the joy of being alive. Like, when I like a book, it's hard to write about it lucidly, but please believe me -it's wonderful.
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