Antoine Chambert-Loir (1971- ) is Professor of Mathematics at Université de Paris. He previously taught at the École normale supérieure, University Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, École polytechnique, University of Rennes and Université Paris-Sud. Besides coauthoring a 3-volume  book  of exercises in analysis, his books include A Field Guide to Algebra and, as co-author, the prize-winning Motivic Integration.

His current research is in arithmetic geometry.

Preface.- 1 Rings.- 2 Ideals and divisibility.- 3 Modules.- 4 Field extensions.- 5 Modules over principal ideal rings.- 6 Noetherian and artinian rings. Primary decomposition.- 7 First steps in homological algebra.- 8 Tensor products and determinants.- 9 Commutative algebra: the normalization theorem, dimension theory, Dedekind rings.- Appendix.- References.- Index.-