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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484160203321

Autore

Douady Régine

Titolo

Algebra and Galois Theories / / by Régine Douady, Adrien Douady

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-32796-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 462 p. 33 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

512.32

Soggetti

Algebra

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Zorn’s Lemma -- Chapter 2. Categories and Functors -- Chapter 3. Linear Algebra -- Chapter 4. Coverings -- Chapter 5. Galois Theory -- Chapter 6. Riemann Surfaces -- Chapter 7. Dessins d’Enfants -- Bibliography -- Index of Notation.

Sommario/riassunto

Galois theory has such close analogies with the theory of coverings that algebraists use a geometric language to speak of field extensions, while topologists speak of "Galois coverings". This book endeavors to develop these theories in a parallel way, starting with that of coverings, which better allows the reader to make images. The authors chose a plan that emphasizes this parallelism. The intention is to allow to transfer to the algebraic framework of Galois theory the geometric intuition that one can have in the context of coverings. This book is aimed at graduate students and mathematicians curious about a non-exclusively algebraic view of Galois theory.