Galois Theory


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Author(s): Ian Stewart
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
Imprint: Chapman & Hall/CRC
ISBN-13: 9781032101583, 978-1032101583

Synopsis

New to the Fourth Edition






Reorganised and revised chapter seven and thirteen
New exercises and examples
Expanded, updated references
Further historical material on figures besides Galois: Omar Khayyam, Vandermonde, Ruffini, and Abel
A new final chapter discussing other directions in which Galois Theory has developed: the inverse Galois problem, differential Galois theory, and a (very) brief introduction to p-adic Galois representations.