Timeline for Awfully sophisticated proof for simple facts
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| Aug 10 at 5:06 | comment | added | Lucenaposition | Are fields allowed to have $0=1$? | |
| Dec 8, 2023 at 23:34 | comment | added | Joe Lamond | The "canonical" argument mentioned above is as follows: suppose $\mathbb F_q=\{a_1,\dots,a_q\}$ is a finite field. Then, $(x-a_1)\cdots(x-a_q)+1$ is a non-constant polynomial with no root in $\mathbb F_q$. | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 23:52 | comment | added | Igor Rivin | Not as simple as the "canonical" argument. | |
| Aug 20, 2012 at 21:49 | comment | added | Ian Agol | That's actually a pretty simple argument. | |
| Jan 29, 2011 at 5:27 | history | answered | Peter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |