Video/Why can't you solve quintic equations? - Galois theory explained intuitively

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Cheung, Trevor (Jul 3, 2022). Why can't you solve quintic equations? - Galois theory explained intuitively. local page: Mathemaniac. 

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It is a famous theorem (called Abel-Ruffini theorem) that there is no quintic formula, or quintic equations are not solvable; but very likely you are not told the exact reason why. Here is how traditionally we knew that such a formula cannot exist, using Galois theory.

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Kummer extension and Cyclotomic Extensions(a.k.a. Abelian extension) are the two groups ideas explained in this video.

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