MMA310 H21 Galoisteori

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Program

The schedule of the course is in TimeEdit.

Lectures

The course uses exercises as approach to Galois theory, with combined lectures and exercise sessions.

The program is preliminary.

 

Week Sections Content
44 1, 2

Solving algebraic equations, field extensions

45 3, 4, 5 Irreducibility of polynomials, algebraic extensions, splitting fields
46 6, 7, 8 Automorphism groups of fields, normal and separable extensions
47 9, 10 Galois extensions, cyclotomic fields
48 12, 13 Solvability of equations
49 15

Resolvents, equations of degree 3 and 4

50 14 Geometric constructions, transcendence of e and LaTeX: \pi
1 Course summary, exam preparation

 

Links

  • Biographies at the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.

 

 

Course summary:

Course Summary
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