Galois theory for non-mathematicians
How a teenager invented a new branch of mathematics to solve a long standing open question about equations
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17 min readDec 26, 2019
You might know that to solve an equation of degree 2, ax²+bx+c = 0, we use the quadratic formula.
There exist similar formulas for equations of degree 3 and 4, but they are mysteriously missing for 5…
