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darthradius

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Registered: 2005-11-28

Posts: 97

Galois Groups

Okay, my turn to ask for help....

Can someone explain how you would go about computing the Galois Group for
x^4 - 16

I really am not quite understanding the process...

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atulvek

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Registered: 2006-04-21

Posts: 5

Re: Galois Groups

kindly give me hint so that ican try it out

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Atul Vek

Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 48,385

Re: Galois Groups

atulvek,
Here is a link to Galois theory.

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Ricky

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Registered: 2005-12-04

Posts: 3,791

Re: Galois Groups

You have to learn a whole lot of things before trying to tackle Galois Theory.  Start with groups and work your way up to rings and fields.  But this is abstract algebra, it is nothing easy.

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George,Y

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Registered: 2006-03-12

Posts: 1,379

Re: Galois Groups

Do you like Bertrand Russell too? I like his paradox very much! hehe...

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X'(y-Xβ)=0

atulvek

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Registered: 2006-04-21

Posts: 5

Re: Galois Groups

very difficult one !!

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Atul Vek