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This edition preserves and even extends one of the most popular features of the original edition: the historical introduction and the story of the fatal duel of Evariste Galois.
These historical notes should be of interest to students as well as mathematicians in general.
[A]fter more than 30 years, Ian Stewart's Galois Theory remains a valuable textbook for algebra undergraduate students.
- Zentralblatt MATH, 1049
This edition preserves and even extends one of the most popular features of the original edition: the historical introduction and the story of the fatal duel of Evariste Galois. … These historical notes should be of interest to students as well as mathematicians in general. … [A]fter more than 30 years, Ian Stewarts Galois Theory remains a valuable textbook for algebra undergraduate students.
- Zentralblatt MATH, 1049
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Ian Stewart's Galois Theory has been in print for 30 years. Resoundingly popular, it still serves its purpose very well, but mathematics education has changed considerably since 1973This edition brings the presentation in line with more modern approaches. While preserving and extending the most popular features of the previous editions, the author reorganized the material to place the concrete before the abstract. He also added more techni