A First Course in Abstract Algebra: Rings, Groups and Fields, Second Edition
I was quickly won over by the book … . The book is very complete, containing more than enough material for a two semester course in undergraduate abstract algebra … . Even though there was a great deal of material presented, I found the book to be very well organized. … There are a lot of things that I like about this book. … [It is] well written and will help students to see the big picture. … All in all it seems that a lot of thought went into this book, resulting in a  comprehensive, well-written, readable book for undergraduates first learning abstract algebra.- MAA OnlineA remarkable feature of the book is that it starts first with the concept of a ring, while groups are introduced later. The reason of that is that students are usually more familiar with various number domains rather than the mappings and matrices. There is a huge number of examples in the book….The book contains a lot of nice exercises of various degrees of difficulty so that it can also be used as a practice book.-EMS Newsletter, March 2006