Aimed at the novice rather than the connoisseur and stressing the role of examples and motivation, this text is suitable not only for use in a graduate course, but also for self-study in the subject by interested graduate students. More than 400 exercises testing the understanding of the general theory in the text are included in this new edition.
Wedderburn-Artin Theory.- Jacobson Radical Theory.- Introduction to Representation Theory.- Prime and Primitive Rings.- Introduction to Division Rings.- Local Rings, Semilocal Rings, and Idempotents.- Perfect and Semiperfect Rings.- References.