Courses on abstract algebra can be very different in style and content. Likewise, textbooks recommended for these courses can vary enormously, not only in notation and exposition but also in their level of sophistication. Here is a list of some major texts that are widely used and to which the reader may refer for background material. The subject matter of these texts covers all six of the present books, and in some cases a great deal more. For the convenience of the reader there is given overleaf an indication of which parts of which of these texts is most relevant to the appropriate chapters of this book.

1. [1] I. T. Adamson, Introduction to Field Theory, Cambridge University Press, 1982.

2. [2] F. Ayres, Jr, Modern Algebra, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw-Hill, 1965.

3. [3] D. Burton, A First Course in Rings and Ideals, Addison-Wesley, 1970.

4. [4] P. M. Cohn, Algebra, Vol. I, Wiley, 1982.

5. [5] D. T. Finkbeiner II, Introduction to Matrices and Linear Transformations, Freeman, 1978.

6. [6] R. Godement, Algebra, Kershaw, 1983.

7. [7] J. A. Green, Sets and Groups, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1965.

8. [8] I. N. Herstein, Topics in Algebra, Wiley, 1977.

9. [9] K. Hoffman and R. Kunze, Linear Algebra, Prentice Hall, 1971.

10. [10] S. Lang, Introduction to Linear Algebra, Addison-Wesley, 1970.

11. [11] S. Lipschutz, Linear Algebra, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw-Hill, 1974.

12. [12] I. D. Macdonald, The Theory of Groups, Oxford University Press, 1968.

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