On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Dan Bron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are the major reasons for this?
In 1824, Niels Henrik Abel proved the striking result that there can be no
general formula (involving only the arithmetical operations and radicals)
for the roots of a polynomial of degree 5 or greater in terms of
its coefficients
(see Abel-Ruffini theorem).
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial
--
Raul
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