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Encyclopedia > Israel Nathan Herstein

Israel Nathan Herstein (1923-1988) was a mathematician, appointed as professor at the University of Chicago in 1951. He worked on a variety of areas of algebra, including ring theory, with over 100 publications. The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. ...


He is known for his lucid style of writing, as exemplified by the widely influential Topics in Algebra, an undergraduate introduction to abstract algebra. Abstract algebra is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures, such as groups, rings, fields, modules, vector spaces, and algebras. ...


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