This book is based on a course given by the author at Harvard University in the fall semester of 1988. The course focused on the inverse problem of Galois Theor

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Praise for the First Edition ". . .will certainly fascinate anyone interested in abstractalgebra: a remarkable book!" —Monatshefte fur Mathematik Galois theor

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