Re: algebraic solutions
- To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg11345] Re: algebraic solutions
- From: mtrott@wolfram.com (Michael Trott)
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 00:41:04 -0500
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- References: <6dk5m0$oam$5@dragonfly.wolfram.com>
In comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica article <6dk5m0$oam$5@dragonfly.wolfram.com> you wrote: > Daniel Teitelbaum wrote: > 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. For Mathematica implementations of their solutions see http://www.mathsource.com/cgi-bin/MathSource/Applications/Mathematics/0207 -199 -- Michael Trott Wolfram Research, Inc.