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In this chapter, we are still concerned with the question of how Galois Theory became established as we look at Klein’s influence in more detail.
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It is quoted in Wussing (1984, p. 274).
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They are quoting from Biermann (1973/1988).
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Quoted in Parshall and Rowe (1994, 201).
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Recall that the metacyclic case is the one in which all the roots are rational functions of any two of them; the best case is binomial equations.
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They are the elements in H ∪ (13)H.
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In modern terms, a natural irrational lies in the splitting field of the original polynomial.
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Petersen was a very energetic producer of textbooks for students in Copenhagen.
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See Chap. 23 below, where it is explained that these are roots of polynomial equations with coefficients taken modulo a prime; in modern terms algebraic extensions of a finite field.
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An equation was said to be normal if each root of it is expressible as a polynomial function with integer coefficients of any one of them.
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See the paper Hulpke (1999) and the pdf of a talk by Hulpke available at
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See his ‘Galois group s as permutation groups’ and his ‘Recognizing Galois group s S n and A n’, and other good sources on the web. Dedekind ’s original proof has been tightened in many places; one due to Tate is on the web. http://www.math.mcgill.ca/labute/courses/371.98/tate.pdf.
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Gray, J. (2018). What Is ‘Galois Theory’?. In: A History of Abstract Algebra. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94773-0_15
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