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A comment on Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad through graduate level?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad ... by wbl on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:14AM (#18940278)
Herstein Topics in Algebra or Dummit and Foote.
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Re:Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad ... by mlevental on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:19AM (#18940319)
goofy suggestion. those are both either grad or senior undergrad books depending on where you are. much better suggestion is

A Book of Abstract Algebra by Pinter (really gentle)

or

A First Course in Abstract Algebra by Fraleigh

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Re:Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad ... by wbl on Friday January 18, 2019 @11:54AM (#18940605)
I used on in high school and the other my second year of undergrad. They have lots of material but they also have good exercises and explanations.
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Re:Ask HN: How to self-study mathematics from the undergrad ... by dunham on Friday January 18, 2019 @07:04PM (#18944297)
Herstein was my undergrad book back in the early 90's. I remember really liking it. It's been a very long time, but my recollection was that the groups to rings progression felt a lot more natural to me than the rings to groups progression of some of the other books at the time.
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