POLYNOMIALS IN FINITE GEOMETRY

-1 Special foreword Before the real Foreword, let me say some words about this book. It is ready in the sense that this is the topic that I wanted to write about and this is how I wanted to write about it. Naturally, this book is not finished in the sense that (i) it is about an active field of mathematics, which changes rapidly; (ii) if you have worked on a book for years then it is hard to stop it: every day you can have a new idea how to slightly improve it; (iii) no editor/referees have seen it yet, hence there may (must!) be typos, inaccuracies, missing citations, line overflow errors... left. It would be nice to increase the number of figures as well. However, I think that in the current state of this volume it is possible to decide about its values and shortcomings. Although I understand that it can be evaluated by this current version, in the spirit of (i) and (ii) above I will keep an updated version on the secret, unlinked webpag