Introduces and applies the standard techniques in the area (ring of fractions, bimodules, Krull dimension, linked prime ideals).

This is a reprinted edition of a work that was considered the definitive account in the subject area upon its initial publication by J. Wiley & Sons in 1987. It

This introduction to noncommutative noetherian rings is intended to be accessible to anyone with a basic background in abstract algebra. It can be used as a sec