TY - GEN AU - Fuchs,Laszlo TI - Abelian groups T2 - Springer monographs in mathematics SN - 9783319194219 U1 - 512.25 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cham PB - Springer KW - Abelian groups. N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Fundamentals -- 2. Direct Sums and direct products -- 3. Direct Sums of Cyclic Groups -- 4. Divisibility and Injectivity -- 5. Purity and Basic Subgroups -- 6. Algebraically Compact Groups -- 7. Homomorphism Groups -- 8. Tensor and Torsion Products -- 9. Groups of Extensions and Cotorsion Groups -- 10. Torsion Groups -- 11. p-Groups with Elements of Infinite Height -- 12. Torsion-free Groups -- 13. Torsion-free Groups of Infinite Rank -- 14. Butler Groups -- 15. Mixed Groups -- 16. Endomorphism Rings -- 17. Automorphism groups -- 18. Groups in Rings and in Fields N2 - This book focuses on the central developments and modern methods of the advanced theory of abelian groups, while remaining accessible, as an introduction and reference, to the non-specialist. It provides a coherent source for results scattered throughout the research literature with lots of new proofs ER -