First Course in Noncommutative Rings

A First Course in Noncommutative Rings, an outgrowth of the author''s lectures at the University of California at Berkeley, is intended as a textbook for a one-semester course in basic ring theory. The material covered includes the Wedderburn-Artin theory of semisimple rings, Jacobson''s theory of the radical, representation theory of groups and algebras, prime and semiprime rings, local and semil...