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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
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Chapter 16
Abstract Rings and Fields
Having seen how Galois Theory works in the context assumed by its inventor, we
can generalise everything to a much broader context. Instead of subfields of C, we
can consider arbitrary fields. This step goes back to Weber in 1895, but first achieved
prominence in the work of Emil Artin in lectures of 1926, later published as Artin
(1948). With the increased generality, new phenomena arise, and these must be dealt
with.
One such phenomenon relates to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, which
does not hold in an arbitrary field. We could get round this by constructing an ana-
logue, the ‘algebraic closure’ of a field, in ...
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