Books by David A. (Amherst College Cox

An exciting approach to the history and mathematics of number theory ... the author s style is totally lucid and very easy to read... the result is indeed a wonderful story.

This book brings one of the most colorful and influential theories in algebra to life for professional algebraists and students alike. The Second Edition features new exercises and an updated bibliography. A new discussion provides a different method for computing the Galois group of a quartic polynomial.