Intended for graduate courses or for independent study, this book
presents the basic theory of fields. The first part begins with a
discussion of polynomials over a ring, the division algorithm,
irreducibility, field extensions, and embeddings. The second part is
devoted to Galois theory. The third part of the book treats the theory
of binomials. The book concludes with a chapter on families of
binomials - the Kummer theory.
This new edition has been completely rewritten in order to improve the
pedagogy and to make the text more accessible to graduate students. The
exercises have also been improved and a new chapter on ordered fields
has been included.