Quintic equation | mathematics | Britannica (original) (raw)

Also known as: equation of the fifth degree

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Galois

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  In Évariste Galois
  …impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by radicals. Ruffini’s effort was not wholly successful, but in 1824 the Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel gave a correct proof.
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Hermite

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  In Charles Hermite
  …of the fifth degree, the quintic equation.
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Ruffini

• In Paolo Ruffini
  …algebraic solution to the general quintic equation (an equation whose highest-degree term is raised to the fifth power).
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