Frederick Akalin personal blog
Why is the Quintic Unsolvable?
In this article, I hope to convince you that the quintic equation is unsolvable, in the sense that I can’t write down the solution to the equation \[ ax^5 + bx^4 + cx^3 + dx^2 + ex + f = 0 \] using only addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to an integer power, and taking an integer root. In fact, I…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Jul 3, 2017 | Why is the Quintic Unsolvable? by luu | 216 | 62 |
