Atya - a well-known topologist and algebraist, winner of the Fields Prize - is familiar to the reader from the Russian translation of his monograph "Lectures on K-theory" ("The World", 1967). "Introduction to commutative algebra", written by him together with I. Macdonald, also based on the lecture course. This book is distinguished by an exceptionally successful selection of material presented modernly, succinctly and with utmost clarity .. Having analyzed all the evidence and trained on numerous exercises, the reader will master the basics of commutative algebra, equally necessary for specialists in topology, number theory, functional analysis, algebraic geometry, and the theory of functions of a complex variable. The book is undoubtedly of interest to mathematicians of various specialties, from students to researchers.