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In Chapters 6 and 7 we observed that the automorphisms of any field form a group, reflecting the “algebraic symmetry” of the field. In many cases we were able to recognise the group in question, by its abstract structure, as one of the standard groups from number theory or geometry.
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Stillwell, J. (1994). Galois Theory of Unsolvability. In: Elements of Algebra. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3976-3_8
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