Field extensions and Galois theory
- Responsibility
- Julio R. Bastida ; with a foreword by Roger Lyndon.
- Imprint
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, ©1984.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (li, 294 pages) : illustrations
- Series
- Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 22.
- Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications. Section, Algebra.
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Bastida, Julio R.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Imprint and ISBN from label on title pages verso. Imprint on t.p. : Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program, 1984.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-290) and index.
- Contents
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- Editor's statement
- Section editor's foreword
- Preface
- Historical introduction
- Prerequisites
- Notation
- 1. Preliminaries on fields and polynomials
- 2. Algebraic extensions
- 3. Galois theory
- 4. Transcendental Extensions
- References and selected bibliography
- Index.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
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Originally published in 1984, the principal objective of this book is to make the general theory of field extensions accessible to any reader with a modest background in groups, rings and vector spaces. Galois theory is generally regarded as one of the central and most beautiful parts of algebra and its creation marked the culmination of investigations by generations of mathematicians on one of the oldest problems in algebra, the solvability of polynomial equations by radicals.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1984
- Series
- Encyclopedia of mathematics and its applications ; v. 22. Section, Algebra
- Note
- Publication taken over by Cambridge University Press in 1984.
- ISBN
- 9781107266766 (electronic bk.)
- 1107266769 (electronic bk.)
- 0521302420
- 9780521302425
- 0201135213
- 9780201135213
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