- Chapter 0: Preliminaries
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Groups
- Chapter 10: Group Homomorphisms
- Chapter 11: Fundamental Theorem of Finite Abelian Groups
- Chapter 12: Introduction to Rings
- Chapter 13: Integral Domains
- Chapter 14: Ideals and Factor Rings
- Chapter 15: Ring Homomorphisms
- Chapter 16: Polynomial Rings
- Chapter 17: Factorization of Polynomials
- Chapter 18: Divisibility in Integral Domains
- Chapter 19: Vector Spaces
- Chapter 2: Groups
- Chapter 20: Extension Fields
- Chapter 21: Algebraic Extensions
- Chapter 22: Finite Fields
- Chapter 23: Geometric Constructions
- Chapter 24: Sylow Theorems
- Chapter 25: Finite Simple Groups
- Chapter 26: Generators and Relations
- Chapter 27: Symmetry Groups
- Chapter 28: Frieze Groups and Crystallographic Groups
- Chapter 29: Symmetry and Counting
- Chapter 3: Finite Groups; Subgroups
- Chapter 30: Cayley Digraphs of Groups
- Chapter 31: Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory
- Chapter 32: An Introduction to Galois Theory
- Chapter 33: Cyclotomic Extensions
- Chapter 4: Cyclic Groups
- Chapter 5: Permutation Groups
- Chapter 6: Isomorphisms
- Chapter 7: Cosets and Lagrange’s Theorem
- Chapter 8: External Direct Products
- Chapter 9: Normal Subgroups and Factor Groups
Contemporary Abstract Algebra 8th Edition - Solutions by Chapter
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ISBN: 9781133599708
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Key Math Terms and definitions covered in this textbook
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Associative Law (AB)C = A(BC).
Parentheses can be removed to leave ABC.
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Augmented matrix [A b].
Ax = b is solvable when b is in the column space of A; then [A b] has the same rank as A. Elimination on [A b] keeps equations correct.
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Basis for V.
Independent vectors VI, ... , v d whose linear combinations give each vector in V as v = CIVI + ... + CdVd. V has many bases, each basis gives unique c's. A vector space has many bases!
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Block matrix.
A matrix can be partitioned into matrix blocks, by cuts between rows and/or between columns. Block multiplication ofAB is allowed if the block shapes permit.
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Change of basis matrix M.
The old basis vectors v j are combinations L mij Wi of the new basis vectors. The coordinates of CI VI + ... + cnvn = dl wI + ... + dn Wn are related by d = M c. (For n = 2 set VI = mll WI +m21 W2, V2 = m12WI +m22w2.)
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Cofactor Cij.
Remove row i and column j; multiply the determinant by (-I)i + j •
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Fourier matrix F.
Entries Fjk = e21Cijk/n give orthogonal columns FT F = nI. Then y = Fe is the (inverse) Discrete Fourier Transform Y j = L cke21Cijk/n.
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Full column rank r = n.
Independent columns, N(A) = {O}, no free variables.
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Gauss-Jordan method.
Invert A by row operations on [A I] to reach [I A-I].
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Hermitian matrix A H = AT = A.
Complex analog a j i = aU of a symmetric matrix.
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Identity matrix I (or In).
Diagonal entries = 1, off-diagonal entries = 0.
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Incidence matrix of a directed graph.
The m by n edge-node incidence matrix has a row for each edge (node i to node j), with entries -1 and 1 in columns i and j .
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Nullspace N (A)
= All solutions to Ax = O. Dimension n - r = (# columns) - rank.
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Random matrix rand(n) or randn(n).
MATLAB creates a matrix with random entries, uniformly distributed on [0 1] for rand and standard normal distribution for randn.
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Rank r (A)
= number of pivots = dimension of column space = dimension of row space.
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Rayleigh quotient q (x) = X T Ax I x T x for symmetric A: Amin < q (x) < Amax.
Those extremes are reached at the eigenvectors x for Amin(A) and Amax(A).
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Schur complement S, D - C A -} B.
Appears in block elimination on [~ g ].
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Schwarz inequality
Iv·wl < IIvll IIwll.Then IvTAwl2 < (vT Av)(wT Aw) for pos def A.
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Symmetric matrix A.
The transpose is AT = A, and aU = a ji. A-I is also symmetric.
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Vector space V.
Set of vectors such that all combinations cv + d w remain within V. Eight required rules are given in Section 3.1 for scalars c, d and vectors v, w.