The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the impossibility of it. However, if I am not mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this gap in the theory of algebraic equations.


A Memoir on Algebraic Equations, Proving the Impossibility of a Solution of the General Equation of the Fifth Degree (1824) Tr. W. H. Langdon, as quote in A Source Book in Mathematics (1929) ed. David Eugene Smith


The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the ...

The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the ...

The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the ...

The mathematicians have been very much absorbed with finding the general solution of algebraic equations, and several of them have tried to prove the ...