TY - BOOK AU - Waerden, B L van der TI - Algebra SN - 9788181288875 PY - 1991/// CY - New York PB - Springer KW - Algebra KW - Mathematics N1 - Index 277-284p N2 - This beautiful and eloquent text served to transform the graduate teaching of algebra, not only in Germany, but elsewhere in Europe and the United States. It formulated clearly and succinctly the conceptual and structural insights which Noether had expressed so forcefully. This was combined with the elegance and understanding with which Artin had lectured...Its simple but austere style set the pattern for mathematical texts in other subjects, from Banach spaces to topological group theory...It is, in my view, the most influential text in algebra of the twentieth century ER -