Solutions to Selected Exercises from Elements of Abstract Algebra by Allan Clarke

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Overview

Note—24th September 2025: added exercises in the Set Theory section.

This project is a collection of attempted solutions to some exercises from Elements of Abstract Algebra by Allan Clarke. If you find mistakes, or have suggestions, please do let me know. If you would like to discuss a particular exercise, or whatever, I'd be happy to hear from you. You can find my contact info at the bottom of this page. When I finish with the book, I plan to enable direct contributions from other people via github, in case someone wants to help make this a complete collection of solutions for this book.

Structure of the project

In general, I follow the structure of the book and every exercise has its own page. E.g. Exercise 35a. Note that I use latin letters in exercise enumeration, that is, "35a" instead of "35". This is because of limitations of mkdocs, which I used to create this website (btw I like mkdocs, it's great). At the bottom of an exercise page I'll sometimes post "Additional thoughts", which will be a place for thoughts on how I solved the exercise, what heuristic I used, or whatever I have to say, so look out for those.

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