Presents modern algebra. This book includes such topics as affine and projective spaces, tensor algebra, Galois theory, Lie groups, and associative algebras and

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Banach algebras are Banach spaces equipped with a continuous multipli- tion. In roughterms,there arethree types ofthem:algebrasofboundedlinear operators on Bana

In this chapter we are largely influenced in our choice of material by the demands of the rest of the book. However, we take the view that this is an opportunit