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As an undergraduate I loved Shafarevich's book Basic notions of algebra. This is not a textbook, but gives small beautiful tastes of a broad choice of topics in algebra, emphasizing connections with other fields.

I found it very stimulating, in the sense that every example or broad overview of some topic in this book made me want to learn more details about it. In fact I became interested in algebraic geometry because of this book.

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As an undergraduate I loved Shafarevich's book Basic notions of algebra. This is not a textbook, but gives small beautiful tastes of a broad choice of topics in algebra, emphasizing connections with other fields.

I found it very stimulating, in the sense that every example or broad overview of some topic in this book made me want to learn more details about it. In fact I became interested in algebraic geometry because of this book.