Galois Theory, Third Edition (Chapman & Hall/Crc Mathematics),   ISBN:9781584883937

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If you buy this book, be sure to find the half a dozen(!) pages of errata. Then reserve a few hours to go through almost every page to correct the many mistakes. Be warned! This book could have been very nice if it weren't for the many mistakes.

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I've received the book very quickly and the book (a classic) is great! I recommand Amazon and Galois Theory as well!

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it is not good for self-
study .

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I just wanted to point out the following:

* The reviews dated prior to the year 2003 refer to earlier editions of the book. The current (3rd) edition was rewritten extensively.

* A list of corrections is available on the Internet. The review guidelines discourage posting URLs, but an internet search with the keywords "stewart galois theory errata" should find the location. You need a postscript reader to view the errata, but a free one is available online.

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I do like Stewart's book. Very much, indeed. I like the approach of starting in the complex case, with very little abstract algebra assumed. Especially since the subject is so much dependent on its own ideas and concepts, it's good that the reader is not blocked by too many abstractions in the beginning. The book also provides a very intuitive feeling for the ideas, before tackling the actual problems. And this is above all an introductory text, rather than a text to learn the details from.

What takes down the rating to only three stars are the typos. Loads of them. Not that they make the book impossible to read (a good math student should notice most of them at first glance) but they disturb the flow of reading, and they somehow tear down the author's authority, so that the reader gets unsure. And that is very bad, for a book aimed primarily for the not-so-advanced student.