After the development of the Cubic and Quartic Formulas during the early to mid 1500s, mathematicians all over Europe worked to discover a formula for solving the general quintic equation, an equation of the form x5+bx4+cx3+dx2+ex+f=0. For 250 years they failed. During the early 1800s, two mathematicians began their brief careers and each would prove, [...]
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The General Quintic Equation
Posted in History of Algebra, Math History on December 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »
