Steps in Commutative Algebra (Paperback, 2 Revised edition)

Prefaces to the 1st and 2nd editions; 1. Commutative rings and subrings; 2. Ideals; 3. Prime ideals and maximal ideals; 4. Primary decomposition; 5. Rings of fractions; 6. Modules; 7. Chain conditions on modules; 8. Commutative Noetherian rings; 9. More module theory; 10. Modules over principal ideal domains; 11. Canonical forms for square matrices; 12. Some applications to field theory; 13. Integral dependence on subrings; 14. Affine algebras over fields; 15. Dimension theory; 16. Regular sequences and grade; 17. Cohen?Macaulay rings; Bibliography; Index.