Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:23:49 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Graduate Algebra text Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:13:46 -0400 From: Charles Wells Is there any graduate algebra text still in print that uses the language of categories? Mac Lane and Birkhoff, and Hungerford, both seem to be out of print. (I deduced this from Macmillan's and Springer's webservers rather than Books In Print). Charles Wells, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44016-7058. Office phone: 216 368 2893. Math dept phone: 216 368 2880. Fax: 216 368 5163. Home phone: 216 774 1926. Home Page URL: http://www.cwru.edu/CWRU/Dept/Artsci/math/wells/home.html. "Some have said that I cannot sing; but no one will say that I didn't sing." --Florence Foster Jenkins Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:49:50 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Algebra Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 17:05:00 -0400 From: Walter Tholen Subject: Algebra Concerning Charles Wells' question, there is the following more recent graduate text in Algebra which, at a fairly early stage, contains a reasonable chapter on categories (including adjoint functors), but which does not necessarily stress categorical methods and language lateron: "Algebra" by Mark Steinberger, PWS Publishing Company, Boston 1994. -- Walter Tholen tel: (1-416) 736 5250 Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics or 736 2100 ext. 33918 York University fax: (1-416) 736 5757 North York, Ontario email: tholen@mathstat.yorku.ca Canada M3J 1P3 web: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Tholen/menu.html Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 08:48:58 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Re: Graduate Algebra text Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 12:40:07 -0700 From: David Espinosa Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:23:26 -0300 (ADT) From: categories Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 12:13:46 -0400 From: Charles Wells Is there any graduate algebra text still in print that uses the language of categories? Mac Lane and Birkhoff, and Hungerford, both seem to be out of print. (I deduced this from Macmillan's and Springer's webservers rather than Books In Print). You can get MacLane and Birkhoff's graduate algebra book from Chelsea Publishing (212) 889-8095 for only about $40. It's excellent! David Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 13:44:08 -0300 (ADT) Subject: Re: Graduate Algebra text Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:59:57 -0400 (EDT) From: James Stasheff Jim Stasheff jds@math.unc.edu Math-UNC (919)-962-9607 Chapel Hill NC FAX:(919)-962-2568 27599-3250 May 15 - August 15: 146 Woodland Dr Lansdale PA 19446 (215)822-6707 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:55:30 +0500 From: Ivan Cherednik To: jds@math.unc.edu Subject: Re: Graduate Algebra text (fwd) Lang's algebra is a good intro. Actually, Grothendick's "On some questions of homological algebra" is the best. -Ivan