The book also includes 11 historical vignettes about mathematicians who contributed to commutative algebra.
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.