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Elements of Algebra: Geometry, Numbers, Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) (1st Edition) by John C. Stillwell Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-387-94290-4 / 0387942904 ISBN-13: 978-0-387-94290-2 / 9780387942902 Algebra is abstract mathematics - let us make no bones about it - yet it is also applied mathematics in its best and purest form. It is not abstraction for its own sake, but abstraction for the sake of efficiency, power and insight. Algebra emerged from the struggle to solve concrete, physical probl |