The first part of this book provides an elementary and self-contained exposition of classical Galois theory and its applications to questions of solvability of

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

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.