📚 Abstract Algebra

Groups, rings and fields: the structures under the arithmetic, first seen in Galois’s notebook.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject abstract algebra in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Contemporary Abstract Algebra	Joseph A. Gallian	1986	22
	Abstract algebra	Thomas W. Judson	1993	17
	A first course in abstract algebra	John B. Fraleigh	1967	16
	Moderne Algebra	Bartel Leendert van der Waerden	1930	15
	Lectures in abstract algebra	Nathan Jacobson	1951	12
	Modern algebra	John R. Durbin	1978	12
	Abstract algebra	William Paulsen	2010	11
	A concrete approach to abstract algebra	W. W. Sawyer	1959	10
	A Survey of Modern Algebra	Garrett Birkhoff	1941	9
	Algebra	Saunders Mac Lane	1967	9
	A First Course in Abstract Algebra [Seventh 7th Edition]	John B. Fraleigh	1969	9
	Abstract algebra	Abraham P. Hillman	1973	9
	A Book of Abstract Algebra	Charles C. Pinter	1982	9
	Abstract algebra	Stephen Lovett	2015	9
	Introductory modern algebra	Saul Stahl	1996	8
	Algebra	Bernhard Hornfeck	1900	7
	Introduction to modern algebra	Neal Henry McCoy	1960	7
	Abstract algebra	Claudia Menini	2004	7
	Abstract algebra	Paul B. Garrett	2007	7
	Abstract Algebra	Gary L. Mullen	2016	7
	Elements of modern abstract algebra	Kenneth S. Miller	1958	6
	Elements of modern algebra	Jimmie Gilbert	1984	6
	Elements of abstract algebra	John T. Moore	1962	5
	Principles of abstract algebra	Richard William Ball	1963	5
	Abstract algebra	W. E. Deskins	1964	5
	Algebra	Larry C. Grove	1983	5
	Abstract algebra	I. N. Herstein	1986	5
	Introduction to algebra	Peter J. Cameron	1998	5
	Introduction to abstract algebra	W. Keith Nicholson	1999	5
	Introduction to Abstract Algebra	Jonathan D. H. Smith	2008	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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