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Title: This book is pedagogically unsound.
Review: I have recently had the unpleasant experience of finishing a higher course in Algebra which used Jacobson's book. To make a long story short, I never once found myself using this book to solve any problems listed in Jacobson, it is the most unorganized and unconnected book (in terms of it's theorems and results and how they came about) that I have ever attempted to learn from. This book is certainly NOT self-contained, nor does Jacobson explicitely list or even sometimes give results which may help solve his exercises. The material is presented either more confusingly than it has to be, or in such a way that one wonders why it was presented in the first place. I don't understand why any mathematician would recommend this book to use as a primary text in a course.
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