"A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Includes index.

0. Introduction. 1. Modern and Post-Modern Algebra. 2. Algebra: The Central Discipline of Mathematics. 3. Sets with Structure and Sets without Structure. 4. Semigroups and Monoids -- I. Groups and Quasigroups. 1. Monoid Actions. 2. Groups and Quasigroups. 3. Symmetry. 4. Loops, Nets and Isotopy -- II. Linear Algebra. 1. General Algebra and Linear Algebra. 2. Vector Spaces and Modules. 3. Commutative Algebra -- III. Categories and Lattices. 1. Posets, Monoids and Categories. 2. Limits and Lattices. 3. Adjoint Functors -- IV. Universal Algebra. 1. Sets with Operations. 2. Varieties. 3. Algebraic Theories. 4. Monads.

This volume takes an altogether new approach to advanced algebra. Its intriguing title, inspired by the term postmodernism, denotes a departure from van der Waerden's Modern Algebra - it book that has dominated the field for nearly seventy years. Post-Modern Algebra offers a truly up-to-date alternative to the standard approach, explaining topics from an applications-based perspective rather than by abstract principles alone.

The book broadens the field of study to include algebraic structures and methods used in current and emerging mathematical research, and describes the powerful yet subtle techniques of universal algebra and category theory. Classical algebraic areas of groups, rings, fields, and vector spaces are bolstered by such topics as ordered sets, monoids, monoid actions, quasigroups, loops, lattices, Boolean algebras, categories, and Heyting algebras.

Post-Modern Algebra is an excellent primary or supplementary text for graduate-level algebra courses. It is also an extremely useful resource for professionals and researchers in many areas who must tackle abstract, linear, or universal algebra in the course of their work.