这是一本专门讲述伽罗瓦理论的教材。内容包括伽罗瓦理论基本定理和多项式方程的根式可解性、伽罗瓦群的计算及其反问题，《伽罗瓦理论：天才的激情》强调通过伽罗瓦对应，可将代数数域中的问题转化成群论的问题加以解决。作为这种思想的应用，证明了代数基本定理，解决了e和的超越性及尺规作图的四大古代难题。为方便读者查阅，附录中详细梳理了所要用到的群、环、域方面的结论。每节配有充足的习题并包含提示。
《伽罗瓦理论：天才的激情》可作为高等学校数学类各专业的教材，也可供其他相关专业参考。

《伽罗瓦理论》内容简介：This exposition of Galois theory was originally going to be Chapter 1 of thecontinuation of my book Fermat's Last Theorem, but it soon outgrew anyreasonable bounds for an introductory chapter, and I decided to make it aseparate book. However, this decision was prompted by more than just thelength. Following the precepts of my sermon "Read the Masters！" [E2], Imade the reading of Galois' original memoir a major part of my study ofGalois theory, and I saw that the modern treatments of Galois theory lackedmuch of the simplicity and clarity of the original. Therefore I wanted towrite about the theory in a way that would not only explain it, but explain itin terms close enough to Galois' own to make his memoir accessible to thereader, in the same way that I tried to make Riemann's memoir on the zetafunction and Kummer's papers on Fermat's Last Theorem accessible in myearlier books, [El] and [E3]. Clearly I could not do this within the confinesof one expository chapter.