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My Modern Higher Alge bra was intended, of course, to serve primarily the first of these groups, and its rather widespread use has assured me of the propriety of both its con tents and its abstract mode of presentation. This assurance has been con firmed by its successful use as a text, the sole prerequisite being the subject matter of L. E. Dicksons First Course in the Theory of Equations. However, I am fully aware of the serious gap in mode of thought between the intuitive treatment of algebraic theory of the First Course and the rigorous abstract treatment of the Modern Higher Algebra, as well as the pedagogical difficulty which is a consequence. The publication recently of more abstract presentations of the theory of equations gives evidence of attempts to diminish this gap. Another such at tempt has resulted in a supposedly less abstract treatise on modern algebra which is about to appear as these pages are being written.
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