A clear and structured introduction to the subject. After a chapter on the definition of rings and modules there are brief accounts of Artinian rings, commutative Noetherian rings and ring constructions, such as the direct product, Tensor product and rings of fractions, followed by a description of free rings. Readers are assumed to have a basic understanding of set theory, group theory and vector spaces. Over two hundred carefully selected exercises are included, most with outline solutions.

Approach your problems from the right end It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is and begin with the answers. Then one day, that they can't see the problem. perhaps you will find the final question. G. K. Chesterton. The Scandal of Father 'The Hermit Gad in Crane Feathers' in R. Brown 'The point of a Pin'. van Gulik's The Chinese Maze Murders. Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. However, the "tree" of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of s9phistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programming profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces. And in addition to this there are such new emerging subdisciplines as "experimental mathematics", "CFD", "completely integrable systems", "chaos, synergetics and large-scale order", which are almost impossible to fit into the existing classification schemes. They draw upon widely different sections of mathematics.

Based in large part on the comprehensive "First Course in Ring Theory" by the same author, this book provides a comprehensive set of problems and solutions in ring theory that will serve not only as a teaching aid to instructors using that book, but also for students, who will see how ring theory theorems are applied to solving ring-theoretic problems and how good proofs are written. The author demonstrates that problem-solving is a lively process: in "Comments" following many solutions he discusses what happens if a hypothesis is removed, whether the exercise can be further generalized, what would be a concrete example for the exercise, and so forth. The book is thus much more than a solution manual.

This book explores commutative ring theory, an important a foundation for algebraic geometry and complex analytical geometry.

1. Preliminaries. 1.1. Presenting algebras by relations. 1.2. S-graded algebras and modules. 1.3. [symbol]-filtered algebras and modules -- 2. The [symbol]-leading homogeneous algebra A[symbol]. 2.1. Recognizing A via G[symbol](A): part 1. 2.2. Recognizing A via G[symbol](A): part 2. 2.3. The [symbol-graded isomorphism A[symbol](A). 2.4. Recognizing A via A[symbol] -- 3. Grobner bases: conception and construction. 3.1. Monomial ordering and admissible system. 3.2. Division algorithm and Grobner basis. 3.3. Grobner bases and normal elements. 3.4. Grobner bases w.r.t. skew multiplicative K-bases. 3.5. Grobner bases in K[symbol] and KQ. 3.6. (De)homogenized Grobner bases. 3.7. dh-closed homogeneous Grobner bases -- 4. Grobner basis theory meets PBW theory. 4.1. [symbol]-standard basis [symbol]-PBW isomorphism. 4.2. Realizing [symbol]-PBW isomorphism by Grobner basis. 4.3. Classical PBW K-bases vs Grobner bases. 4.4. Solvable polynomial algebras revisited -- 5. Using A[symbol] in terms of Grobner bases. 5.1. The working strategy. 5.2. Ufnarovski graph. 5.3. Determination of Gelfand-Kirillov Dimension. 5.4. Recognizing Noetherianity. 5.5. Recognizing (semi- )primeness and PI-property. 5.6. Anick's resolution over monomial algebras. 5.7. Recognizing finiteness of global dimension. 5.8. Determination of Hilbert series -- 6. Recognizing (non- )homogeneous p-Koszulity via A[symbol]. 6.1. (Non- )homogeneous p-Koszul algebras. 6.2. Anick's resolution and homogeneous p-Koszulity. 6.3. Working in terms of Grobner bases -- 7. A study of Rees algebra by Grobner bases. 7.1. Defining [symbol] by [symbol]. 7.2. Defining [symbol] by [symbol]. 7.3. Recognizing structural properties of [symbol] via [symbol]. 7.4. An application to regular central extensions. 7.5. Algebras defined by dh-closed homogeneous Grobner bases -- 8. Looking for more Grobner bases. 8.1. Lifting (finite) Grobner bases from O[symbol]. 8.2. Lifting (finite) Grobner bases from a class of algebras. 8.3. New examples of Grobner basis theory. 8.4. Skew 2-nomial algebras. 8.5. Almost skew 2-nomial algebras

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to module theory and the related part of ring theory, including original results as well as the most recent work. It is a useful and stimulating study for those new to the subject as well as for researchers and serves as a reference volume. Starting form a basic understanding of linear algebra, the theory is presented and accompanied by complete proofs. For a module M, the smallest Grothendieck category containing it is denoted by o[M] and module theory is developed in this category. Developing the techniques in o[M] is no more complicated than in full module categories and the higher generality yields significant advantages: for example, module theory may be developed for rings without units and also for non-associative rings. Numerous exercises are included in this volume to give further insight into the topics covered and to draw attention to related results in the literature.