This volume is the offspring of a week-long workshop on "Galois groups over Q and related topics," which was held at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institut

Develops the mathematical background and recent results on the Inverse Galois Problem.

Assuming little technical background, the author presents the strong analogies between these two concepts starting at an elementary level.

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

Starting from the classical finite-dimensional Galois theory of fields, this book develops Galois theory in a much more general context, presenting work by Grot