The first part of this book provides an elementary and self-contained exposition of classical Galois theory and its applications to questions of solvability of algebraic equations in explicit form. The second part describes a surprising analogy between the fundamental theorem of Galois theory and the classification of coverings over a topological space. The third part contains a geometric description of finite algebraic extensions of the field of meromorphic functions on a Riemann surface and provides an introduction to the topological Galois theory developed by the author.
All results are presented in the same elementary and self-contained manner as classical Galois theory, making this book both useful and interesting to readers with a variety of backgrounds in mathematics, from advanced undergraduate students to researchers.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
From the reviews:
"This book features generalizations and variations beyond Abel's theorem per se. ... This book is for those who appreciate concision, and remarkably, the author develops these extended results in full detail--all in a work just a fraction of the length of standard Galois theory textbooks. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty." (D. V. Feldman, Choice, Vol. 51 (10), June, 2014)
Produkt-Info
Auflage
Sprache
Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Graduate
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 241 mm
Breite: 160 mm
Dicke: 12 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-3-642-38840-8 (9783642388408)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-38841-5
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Askold Khovanskii is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, and a principal researcher at the RAS Institute for Systems Analysis (Moscow, Russia). He is a founder of Topological Galois Theory and the author of fundamental results in this area.
