This book's organizing principle is the interplay between groups and rings, where “rings” includes the ideas of modules. It contains basic definitions, complete and clear theorems (the first with brief sketches of proofs), and gives attention to the topics of algebraic geometry, computers, homology, and representations.

For a subject that is a challenge at all levels of education.

Parts 1 and 2 combined cover principles for basic algebra, intermediate algebra and college algebra courses.

Topics covered include:

* set theory
* operations of real numbers
* algebraic terms
* order of operations
* factoring & rational expressions
* roots & radicals
* and much more

Algebra II is the advanced QuickStudy guide specially designed for students who are already familiar with algebra I.
Topics covered include:
* real number lines
* graphing & lines
* types of functions
* sequences & series
* conic sectiones
* problems & solutiones
* and much more

A is for Algebra-and that's the grade you'll pull when you use Bob Miller's simple guide to the math course every college-bound kid must take.

With eight books and more than 30 years of hard-core classroom experience, Bob Miller is the frustrated student's best friend. He breaks down the complexities of every problem into easy-to-understand pieces that any math-phobe can understand-and this fully updated second edition of Bob Miller's Algebra for the Clueless covers everything a you need to know to excel in Algebra I and II.

From the Author's Preface to the Third Edition

This is not an easy-reading text on algebra for beginners. Neither is it a manual. It is a book for free reading. It is designed for a reader with some knowledge of algebra, even though half mastered and perhaps half forgotten. The present text hopes to help the reader recall such haphazard knowledge and polish it up, the aim being to fix certain facts in his mind. It is meant to develop in the reader a taste for algebra and problem-solving, and also excite him to dip into algebra textbooks and fill in the blanks in his knowledge.

To make the subject more attractive I have made use of a variety of tools: problems with intriguing plots to excite
the reader's curiosity, amusing excursions into the history of mathematics, unexpected uses that algebra is put to in everyday affairs, and more.