Download or read book Topics in Galois Theory written by Jean-Pierre Serre and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on a course given by the author at Harvard University in the fall semester of 1988. The course focused on the inverse problem of Galois Theory: the construction of field extensions having a given finite group as Galois group. In the first part of the book, classical methods and results, such as the Scholz and Reichardt constructi