"Springer has just released the second edition of Steven Roman's Field Theory, and it continues to be one of the best graduate-level introductions to the subject out there....Every section of the book has a number of good exercises that would make this book excellent to use either as a textbook or to learn the material on your own. All in all...a well-written expository account of a very exciting area in mathematics." --THE MAA MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES DIGITAL LIBRARY
Preliminaries.- Preliminaries.- Field Extensions.- Polynomials.- Field Extensions.- Embeddings and Separability.- Algebraic Independence.- Galois Theory.- Galois Theory I: An Historical Perspective.- Galois Theory II: The Theory.- Galois Theory III: The Galois Group of a Polynomial.- A Field Extension as a Vector Space.- Finite Fields I: Basic Properties.- Finite Fields II: Additional Properties.- The Roots of Unity.- Cyclic Extensions.- Solvable Extensions.- The Theory of Binomials.- Binomials.- Families of Binomials.