Galois theory - introductory text from geometric viewpoint?

John Baez · science forum Guru Wannabe Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 220

Does anyone know an introductory text on Galois theory that
really emphasizes the analogy with the theory of branched
covering spaces? This book makes the analogy very clear:

Dino Lorenzini, An Invitation to Arithmetic Geometry, American
Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 1996.

But, it's not what I'd call introductory. Michio Kuga's
book Galois' Dream seems to emphasize covering spaces, but
it's more about Fuchsian differential equations than the
Galois theory of number fields, which is what I'm talking
about here.

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In article <e9iokt$tp$1@dizzy.math.ohio-state.edu>, laurent berger wrote:

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In article <e9isvu$1d2$1@dizzy.math.ohio-state.edu>,
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