Download or read book Field Theory written by Steven Roman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.