Irving Kaplansky (1917 - 2006) was a leading authority on algebra. He contributed greatly to the structure of Banach algebras, to locally compact groups and group representations. From 1945 to 1984, P
Kaplansky, formerly an instructor at the University of Chicago, overviews the correlation between algebra and geometry and illustrates concepts with examples, exercises, and proofs. Coverage begins wi
In the Introduction to this concise monograph, the author states his two main goals: first, "to make the theory of infinite abelian groups available in a convenient form to the mathematical public; se
This book combines in one volume Irving Kaplansky's lecture notes on the theory of fields, ring theory, and homological dimensions of rings and modules."In all three parts of this book the author
