Re: Re: algebraic solutions
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11354] Re: [mg11345] Re: algebraic solutions
- From: Axel Schwalm <a3023575@smail3.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 02:06:29 -0500
Dear Michael, >> A quintic equation is hard to solve numerically. >Not really. Using Weierstrass method together with Newton seems quite >easy to me. >>Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think anyone has >>cracked the symbolic form of a quintic solution yet. >Hermite, Kronecker, and some other did it about 150 years ago. I wonder, why, with all their genius Hermite and Kronecker did it by hand? Have they not been smart enough to cope with Mathematica? And will Mathematica be in use in, say, 150 years? "Please, be gentle with this heart of mine..." Axel