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 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

This self-contained book serves both as an introduction to profinite groups and as a reference for specialists in some areas of the theory. It contains complete

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