Recent Developments in the Inverse Galois Problem

This book begins with a new review of Serre's Topics in Galois theory and goes on to describe the latest research on explicit presentation of the absolute Galois group of the rationals. The papers collected here show th eubiquity of the applications of the Inverse Galois Problem and its compelling significance. The book wil serve as a guide to progress on the Inverse Galois Problem and as an aid in using the work in other areas of mathematics.