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The Insolvability of the Quintic

A 10-minute video by Aleph 0 about number systems and proofs, on the Mathematics shelf. It came up in r/3Blue1Brown, in a thread called “Topic requests”.

Aleph 0, Video, 10 min, 2021, on the Mathematics shelf

Introduces the connection between fields and Galois groups to explain the lack of a general quintic formula in radicals.

Introduces the connection between fields and Galois groups to explain the lack of a general quintic formula in radicals.