Preface
Notes to the Reader
List of Symbols
I Galois Theory
1 Field Extensions
2 Automorphisms
3 Normal Extensions
4 Separable and Inseparable Extensions
5 The Fundamental Theorem of Galois Theory
II Some Galois Extensions
6 Finite Fields
7 Cyclotomic Extensions
8 Norms and Traces
9 Cyclic Extensions
10 Hilbert Theorem 90 and Group Cohomology
11 Kummer Extensions
III Applications of Galois Theory
12 Discriminants
13 Polynomials of Degree 3 and 4
14 The Transcendence of and e
15 Ruler and Compass Consturctions
16 Solvability by Radicals
Ⅳ Infinite Algebraic Extensions
Ⅴ Transcendental Extensions
Appendix A Ring Theory
Appendix B Set Theory
Appendix C Group Theory
Appendix D Vector Spaces
Appendix E Topology
References