A self-contained exposition of local class field theory for students in advanced algebra.

Pierre Guillot is a lecturer at the Université de Strasbourg and a researcher at the Institut de Recherche Mathématique Avancée (IRMA). He has authored numerous research papers in the areas of algebraic geometry, algebraic topology, quantum algebra, knot theory, combinatorics, the theory of Grothendieck's dessins d'enfants, and Galois cohomology.

Part I. Preliminaries: 1. Kummer theory; 2. Local number fields; 3. Tools from topology; 4. The multiplicative structure of local number fields; Part II. Brauer Groups: 5. Skewfields, algebras, and modules; 6. Central simple algebras; 7. Combinatorial constructions; 8. The Brauer group of a local number field; Part III. Galois Cohomology: 9. Ext and Tor; 10. Group cohomology; 11. Hilbert 90; 12. Finer structure; Part IV. Class Field Theory: 13. Local class field theory; 14. An introduction to number fields.