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Galois theory

By Ian N. Stewart

Book information

Publisher
Chapman & Hall/CRC
Year
2003
ISBN
1584883936, 9781584883937
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
50 MB (52349665 bytes)
Series
Chapman & Hall/CRC mathematics
Edition
3
Pages
328\324
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Ian Stewart's Galois Theory has been in print for 30 years. Resoundingly popular, it still serves its purpose exceedingly well. Yet mathematics education has changed considerably since 1973, when theory took precedence over examples, and the time has come to bring this presentation in line with more modern approaches. To this end, the story now begins with polynomials over the complex numbers, and the central quest is to understand when such polynomials have solutions that can be expressed by radicals. Reorganization of the material places the concrete before the abstract, thus motivating the general theory, but the substance of the book remains the same.

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