Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities

Abstract Algebra and Famous Impossibilities

Squaring the Circle, Doubling the Cube, Trisecting an Angle, and Solving Quintic Equations

Morris, Sidney A.; Jones, Arthur; Pearson, Kenneth R.

Springer International Publishing AG

11/2022

218

Dura

Inglês

9783031056970

15 a 20 dias

573

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1. Algebraic Preliminaries.- 2. Algebraic Numbers and Their Polynomials.- 3. Extending Fields.- 4. Irreducible Polynomials.- 5. Straightedge and Compass Constructions.- 6. Proofs of the Geometric Impossibilities.- 7. Zeros of Polynomials of Degrees 2, 3, and 4.- 8. Quintic Equations 1: Symmetric Polynomials.- 9. Quintic Equations II: The Abel-Ruffini Theorem.- 10. Transcendence of e and ?.- 11. An Algebraic Postscript.- 12. Other Impossibilities: Regular Polygons and Integration in Finite Terms.- References.- Index.
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Field theory mathematics;Squaring the circle;Doubling the cube;Trisecting an angle;Solving quintic equations;Mathematical impossibilities;History of mathematical impossibilities;Straightedge and compass constructions;Abel-Ruffini theorem