The story
Named for its connection with Galois theory and after French mathematician Évariste Galois.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Galois extension
Today it means: An algebraic extension that is both a normal and a separable extension; equivalently, an algebraic extension E/F such that the fixed field of its automorphism group (Galois group) Aut(E/F) is the base field F. Full definition →