This classic monograph is geared toward advanced undergraduates and graduate students and presupposes some familiarity with sets, groups, rings, and vector spaces. Topics include sets and maps, monoids and groups, unique factorization domains, localization and tensor products, applications of fundam[...]

This book contains seven lectures delivered at The Maurice Auslander Memorial Conference at Brandeis University in March 1995. The variety of topics covered at the conference reflects the breadth of Maurice Auslander?s contribution to mathematics, which includes commutative algebra and algebraic geo[...]