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Title: Maybe a classic but not worthwile for me
Review: Ever since I took intermediate algebra high school, I've wanted to learn the proof for the insolvability of the general quintic polynomial. I bought this book with great hope and expectation, but, with all due respect to the previous Amazon reviewers and the late professor Artin, I found it severely lacking. Its proofs are too dense in some places and too sparse in others, and its notation is obscure. I returned it almost immediately. I do not believe that any eighth grader could understand this book. If its price were not so low and its potential audience so limited, I would suspect fraud on the part of the first amazon reviewer. I eventually used the 2nd edition of Fraleigh's Abstract Algebra text to learn the proof for the insolvability of the general quintic. Fraleigh leaves key parts of the proof as exercises for the reader, but if you have the patience to prove some theorems yourself, Fraleigh is the way to go.
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