Download or read book Rings, Fields, and Vector Spaces written by Bharath Sethuraman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-11-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the proof of the non-trisectability of an arbitrary angle as a final goal, the author develops in an easy conversational style the basics of rings, fields, and vector spaces. Originally developed as a text for an introduction to algebra course for future high-school teachers at California State University, Northridge, the focus of this book is on exposition. It would serve extremely well as a focused, one-semester introduction to abstract algebra.