Copyright © 1980, 1989 by Nathan Jacobson
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Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2009, is an unabridged republication of the 1989 second edition of the work originally published by W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, in 1980.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jacobson, Nathan, 1910–1999.
Basic algebra / Nathan Jacobson. — Dover ed.
p. cm.
Originally published: 2nd ed. San Francisco : W.H. Freeman, 1985–1989.
ISBN-13: 978-0486-47189-1 (v. 1)
ISBN-10: 0-486-47189-6 (v. 1)
ISBN 13: 978-0-486-47187-7 (v. 2)
ISBN-10 0-486-47187-X (v. 2)
1. Algebra I. Title.
QA154.2.J32 2009
512.9—dc22
2009006506
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47187X01
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