Just purchased this textbook and the abstract algebra textbook from Lang. Are these good resources alone to learn the material? If not, what other (free) resources pair well with these books?
Just purchased this textbook and the abstract algebra textbook from Lang...
Aiden Wilson
Jordan Bell
>Are these good resources alone to learn the material?
No, Lang is a meme.
Also general abstract algebra books are also a meme, get a book for whatever specific topic you're interested in (rings, groups, fields, commutative algebra, homological algebra, representation theory, etc.)
Christopher Martinez
what about Lang is a meme?
James Diaz
Don't have his algebra book, but his complex analysis book is good.
Lincoln Nelson
I’ve got them both. They are both good, but at oddly different levels. The complex analysis book is not nearly as advanced as the algebra book.
Levi Mitchell
There's literally a point in that book (in the statement of the residue theorem I think) where Lang writes [math]\sqrt{-1}[/math] instead of [math]i[/math], since he refuses to use another variable as an index in a sum. He even makes a note about it. Literally a meme.
Jack Morris
shut up honestly
Gavin Davis
just use j
Henry Gonzalez
>shut up honestly
What's wrong?
Benjamin Robinson
Why do you think general abstract algebra books as you put it are a 'meme'