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Galois Theory, 4th Edition
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Galois Theory, 4th Edition

by Ian Nicholas Stewart
March 2015
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
344 pages
10h 18m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Content preview from Galois Theory, 4th Edition
Historical Introduction
Mathematics has a rich history, going back at least 5000 years. Very few subjects
still make use of ideas that are as old as that, but in mathematics, important dis-
coveries have lasting value. Most of the latest mathematical research makes use of
theorems that were published last year, but it may also use results first discovered by
Archimedes, or by some unknown Babylonian mathematician, astronomer, or priest.
For example, ever since Archimedes proved (around 250 BC) that the volume of a
sphere is what we would now write as
4
3
πr
3
, that discovery has been available to any
mathematician who is aware of the result, and whose research ...
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