Hi metakunt,
Sorry I don't have much time this week for a long answer.
I think the best course of action would be to identify a good reference textbook, and follow along with the definitions and properties. I cannot help much with that choice as I'm not an expert in the domain.
Milne's course notes are available online, so using them will help anyone who does not have access to a physical math library.
https://www.jmilne.org/math/CourseNotes/FT.pdf
Then other options that come to mind is simply to look at the
references listed in the Wikipedia page for Finite Fields... and
ask the community, like in this question:
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/126364/books-on-advanced-galois-theory
It's usually easier to go from the more general to the
"numerical" application, so a general advice would be to not
restrict yourself too much to a single application.
Pulling `polyFld` into main or your own mathbox and starting proving theorems like "a splitting field is a field", "a splitting field is a field extension", etc. sounds like a great start.
BR,
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Thierry
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