Galois Theory for Beginners: A Historical Perspective

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Jörg Bewersdorff

Publisher:

AMS

Publication Date:

2021

Number of Pages:

217

Format:

Paperback

Edition:

2nd

Series:

Student Mathematical Library

Price:

59.00

ISBN:

978-1-4704-6500-1

Category:

Textbook

MAA Review
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[Reviewed by

Benjamin Linowitz

, on

08/8/2021

]

See our review of the first edition of this book.

This new edition includes twenty facsimiles of famous documents from the history of algebra (e.g. excerpts from Cardano's Ars Magna). The author has also added an eleventh chapter: "Galois theory according to Artin". This chapter concerns the presentation that Artin gave of Galois theory in his famous book of the same name. (You can find our review of Artin's book here.) Artin's presentation of Galois theory is extremely abstract, and would seem, to the novice reader, to have little connection to the field described in the first ten chapters of Bewersdorff's book. In the newly added eleventh chapter Bewersdorff gives an overview of Artin's presentation of Galois theory and connects it to this book's more historical approach.

Benjamin Linowitz (benjamin.linowitz@oberlin.edu) is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Oberlin College. His website can be found at http://www2.oberlin.edu/faculty/blinowit/.

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Galois Theory