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The study of connections between field theory and group theory through the idea of Galois groups and further concepts.

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How did the modern understanding of Galois theory come about?

The "modern" understanding of the Galois group of a polynomial is as automorphisms of the splitting field of the polynomial which keep the base field fixed. These concepts were unknown to Galois, who …
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