A field guide to algebra代数指南

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作者: Antoine Chambert-Loir著
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出版时间: 2004-10-1字数:版次: 1页数: 195印刷时间: 2004/10/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9780387214283包装: 精装内容简介
This unique textbook focuses on the structure of fields and is intended for a second course in abstract algebra. Besides providing proofs of the transcendence of pi and e, the book includes material on differential Galois groups and a proof of Hilbert's irreducibility theorem. The reader will hear about equations, both polynomial and differential, and about the algebraic structure of their solutions. In explaining these concepts, the author also provides comments on their historical development and leads the reader along many interesting paths.
In addition, there are theorems from analysis: as stated before, the transcendence of the numbers pi and e, the fact that the complex numbers form an algebraically closed field, and also Puiseux's theorem that shows how one can parametrize the roots of polynomial equations, the coefficients of which are allowed to vary. There are exercises at the end of each chapter, varying in degree from easy to difficult. To make the book more lively, the author has incorporated pictures from the history of mathematics, including scans of mathematical stamps and pictures of mathematicians.
作者简介
Antoine Chambert-Loir taught this book when he was Professor at École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France. He is now Professor at Université de Rennes 1.
目录
1 Field extensions
Constructions with ruler and compass
Fields
Field extensions
Some classical impossibilities
Symmetric functions
Appendix: Transcendence of e and π
Exercises
2 Roots
Ring of remainders
Splitting extensions
Algebraically closed fields; algebraic closure
Appendix: Structure of polynomial rings
Appendix: Quotient rings
Appendix: Puiseux's theorem
Exercises
3 Galois theory
Homomorphisms of an extension in an algebraic closure
Automorphism group of an extension
The Galois group as a permutation group
Discriminant; resolvent polynomials
Finite fields
Exercises
4 A bit of group theory
Groups (quick review of basic definitions)
Subgroups
Group actions
Normal subgroups; quotient groups
Solvable groups; nilpotent groups
Symmetric and alternating groups
Matrix groups
Exercises
5 Applications
Constructibility with ruler and compass
Cyclotomy
Composite extensions
Cyclic extensions
Equations with degrees up to 4
Solving equations by radicals
How (not) to compute Galois groups
Specializing Galois groups
Hilbert's irreducibility theorem
Exercises
6 Algebraic theory of differential equations
Differential fields
Differential extensions; construction of derivations
Differential equations
Picard-Vessiot extensions
The differential Galois group; examples
The differential Galois correspondence
Integration in finite terms, elementary extensions
Appendix: Hilbert's Nullstellensatz
Exercises
Examination problems
References
Index