Re: JSH: Math as a religion


jstevh@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I'll give a simple example to explain how Galois Theory as used today
> is wrong, as consider a world where people don't take square roots for
> religious reasons. So on that world, sqrt(4) is just sqrt(4) as people
> refuse to take the square root.
>
> On that world Galois Theory is used for ALL polynomials without regard
> to reducibility over Q as people refuse to take square roots.
>
> So consider
>
> x^2 - 3x + 2 = 0
>
> which you can solve on that world as they do have the quadratic
> formula:
>
> x = (3 +/- sqrt(4))/2

Oops.

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Larry Lard
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