I do not know how to simplify these roots.

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 1:57:45 AM UTC+1, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>
> Ah, apparently the paper 
> (
> http://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1991-57-195/S0025-5718-1991-1079014-X/S0025-5718-1991-1079014-X.pdf
>  
> ("Solving solvable quintics", D. S. Dummit)), glosses over this, 
> because of this fact. What is the algorithm to eliminate the fourth 
> order term? 
>
> How can we simplify the roots. Will the more advanced sqrtdenest 
> algorithms help (https://code.google.com/p/sympy/issues/detail?id=93)? 
>
> Aaron Meurer 
>
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 10:59 AM, mario <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > One can always eliminate the fourth order by a translation, in this case 
> by 
> > one; one obtains then 
> > ``x**5 + 20*x**3 + 20*x**2 + 30*x + 10``, which is solved by SymPy; it 
> would 
> > be useful to automatize this step. 
> > 
> > However the real solution is not simplified, it has ``count_ops = 267``, 
> vs 
> > ``count_ops=11`` for the simplified 
> > real solution ``S('2^(1/5) - 4^(1/5) + 8^(1/5) - 16^(1/5)')`` 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Monday, January 27, 2014 11:42:03 AM UTC+1, Harsh Gupta wrote: 
> >> 
> >> > Apparently only for some of them: it does not solve 
> >> > ``x**5 - 5*x**4 + 30*x**3 - 50*x**2 + 55*x - 21 = 0`` 
> >> 
> >> Thanks. Yes, not all of them, Only equations of form x**5  + p*x**3 + 
> >> q*x**2 + r*x + s, no fourth order terms are solvable. 
> > 
> > 
> >> 
> >> The implementation was added in 
> >> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/1746. So, there is scope of 
> >> improvement. I wonder 
> >> how many of other methods of solving solvable quintics can be 
> >> implemented without a knowledge of abstract algebra. 
> >> Aaron Meurer can you guide me on this? 
> >> 
> >> On 27 January 2014 13:28, mario <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> > You wrote "Methods to solve solvable quintics are implemented in 
> sympy." 
> >> > 
> >> > Apparently only for some of them: it does not solve 
> >> > ``x**5 - 5*x**4 + 30*x**3 - 50*x**2 + 55*x - 21 = 0`` 
> >> > 
> >> > taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintic_function 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > On Monday, January 27, 2014 3:11:37 AM UTC+1, Harsh Gupta wrote: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> I'm reading and understanding the solvers code. I have started 
> >> >> documenting it here https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/solvers. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> @Matthew 
> >> >> For implementing and dealing with infinite sets I've found a draft 
> by 
> >> >> Richard Fateman 
> >> >> http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/sets.pdf 
> >> >> 
> >> >> I have skimmed through it and it appears all of the techniques 
> >> >> described there are implementable in sympy. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> On 25 January 2014 06:28, Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> >> > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Harsh Gupta <[email protected]> 
>
> >> >> > wrote: 
> >> >> >>>> Great to hear it. As noted on the ideas page, this one will 
> >> >> >>>> require a 
> >> >> >>>> good deal of thought to be done in the application, so let's 
> start 
> >> >> >>>> discussing. 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> Thanks a lot, and sorry for the late reply 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >>>> Another thing I'd like to know is if there's literature on 
> solving 
> >> >> >>>> algorithms, particularly solving transcendental equations, and 
> >> >> >>>> very 
> >> >> >>>> particularly on if there are any complete algorithms out there 
> for 
> >> >> >>>> some class of equations. 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> I found a old paper called "SOLVING SYMBOLIC EQUATIONS WITH 
> PRESS" 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> 
> http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/files/413486/Solving_Symbolic_Equations_%20with_PRESS.pdf
>  
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >>>> Do we know how other computer algebra systems solve this 
> problem? 
> >> >> >>>> How robust are the algorithms behind wolframalpha.com ? 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> I have found another paper "A Review of Symbolic Solvers" 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> 
> http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.44.9444&rep=rep1&type=pdf
>  
> >> >> >> and according to it Mathematica performs performs pretty bad. 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > That was in 1996. 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Nonetheless this, along with the Wester paper, should provide some 
> >> >> > good test cases so we can see what can be done that we can't do. 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> > Aaron Meurer 
> >> >> > 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >>>> An audit of the current solve code might be in order. In 
> >> >> >>>> particular, 
> >> >> >>>> I'd like to know: 
> >> >> >>>> 
> >> >> >>>> 1. what are the different "solvers"? (if we split solve into 
> >> >> >>>> "hints" 
> >> >> >>>> like with dsolve, these would be the different hints), and 
> >> >> >>>> 2. which are algorithmically complete (i.e., we know they will 
> >> >> >>>> give 
> >> >> >>>> all solutions, or they can detect somehow if they may have 
> missed 
> >> >> >>>> one)? 
> >> >> >>>> 
> >> >> >>>> And this may raise auxiliary questions, like: 
> >> >> >>>> 
> >> >> >>>> - to what degree can the different solvers be separated? For 
> >> >> >>>> instance, 
> >> >> >>>> one solver (I'm not sure if it's actually implemented) would 
> use 
> >> >> >>>> decompose() to solve recursively. How would such "recursive 
> >> >> >>>> solvers" 
> >> >> >>>> look in a hints system? 
> >> >> >>>> 
> >> >> >>>> - of those that are heuristic (not algorithmically complete), 
> can 
> >> >> >>>> they 
> >> >> >>>> be improved? 
> >> >> >> 
> >> >> >> I'm going through the solvers code and will answer these 
> questions 
> >> >> >> soon. 
> >> >> >> 
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