Aimed at the novice rather than the connoisseur and stressing the role of examples and motivation, this text is suitable not only for use in a graduate course, but also for self-study in the subject by interested graduate students. More than 400 exercises testing the understanding of the general theory in the text are included in this new edition.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1 Wedderburn-Artin Theory

CHAPTER 2 Jacobson Radical Theory

CHAPTER 3 Introduction to Representation Theory

CHAPTER 4 Prime and Primitive Rings

CHAPTER 5 Introduction to Division Rings

CHAPTER 6 Ordered Structures in Rings

CHAPTER 7 Local Rings, Semilocal Rings, and Idempotents

CHAPTER 8 Perfect and Semiperfect Rings