Re:SICP - summary of 10 months working through the entire book
by mnemonicsloth on Saturday April 19, 2008 @11:42AM
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Did you like Artin?
My first-year class in field & Galois theory started with the Artin text, and by mid-semester I started daydreaming about ripping out random pages and mailing them to the author.
But I don't like colloquial exposition, so YMMV.
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Serge-Lang/dp/038795385X/
http://www.amazon.com/Undergraduate-Algebra-Texts-Mathematic...
Michael Artin's book is also a decent text aimed mostly at undergraduates:
http://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Michael-Artin/dp/0130047635/