Galois Theory

von: Steven H. Weintraub

Springer-Verlag, 2009

ISBN: 9780387875750 , 220 Seiten

2. Auflage

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Galois Theory


 

Contents

6

Preface to the First Edition

8

Preface to the Second Edition

11

1 Introduction to Galois Theory

12

1.1 Some Introductory Examples

12

2 Field Theory and Galois Theory

18

2.1 Generalities on Fields

18

2.2 Polynomials

22

2.3 Extension Fields

26

2.4 Algebraic Elements and Algebraic Extensions

29

2.5 Splitting Fields

33

2.6 Extending Isomorphisms

35

2.7 Normal, Separable, and Galois Extensions

36

2.8 The Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory

40

2.9 Examples

48

2.10 Exercises

51

3 Development and Applications of Galois Theory

56

3.1 Symmetric Functions and the Symmetric Group

56

3.2 Separable Extensions

65

3.3 Finite Fields

67

3.4 Disjoint Extensions

71

3.5 Simple Extensions

77

3.6 The Normal Basis Theorem

80

3.7 Abelian Extensions and Kummer Fields

84

3.8 The Norm and Trace

90

3.9 Exercises

93

4 Extensions of the Field of Rational Numbers

99

4.1 Polynomials in Q[X]

99

4.2 Cyclotomic Fields

103

4.3 Solvable Extensions and Solvable Groups

107

4.4 Geometric Constructions

111

4.5 Quadratic Extensions of Q

117

4.6 Radical Polynomials and Related Topics

122

4.7 Galois Groups of Extensions of Q

132

4.8 The Discriminant

138

4.9 Practical Computation of Galois Groups

141

4.10 Exercises

147

5 Further Topics in Field Theory

153

5.1 Separable and Inseparable Extensions

153

5.2 Normal Extensions

161

5.3 The Algebraic Closure

165

5.4 Infinite Galois Extensions

170

5.5 Exercises

181

6 Transcendental Extensions

183

6.1 General Results

183

6.2 Simple Transcendental Extensions

191

6.3 Plane Curves

195

6.4 Exercises

201

A Some Results from Group Theory

204

A.1 Solvable Groups

204

A.2 p-Groups

208

A.3 Symmetric and Alternating Groups

209

B A Lemma on Constructing Fields

214

C A Lemma from Elementary Number Theory

216

Index

218