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Title: The man is great, the book is not
Review: This is not an easy book to learn from. The material is there but organized in a very poor way. Important results and theorems are often hidden in the middle of page long paragraphs. The index is so bad they might as well not have included it. The information is all there, but unless you read every word in the text from beginning to end, you just won't be able to get to it. I used Hungerford to get through my first graduate classes in algebra, which is too brief but definitely a step up from this. This is a poorly organized text written by a truly great mathematician.
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