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The power of Archimedean spirals: is there an algebraic characterization of Archimedean numbers?

I asked this question over a year ago on Math.StackExchange but I didn't get an answer. In his famous treatise On spirals, Archimedes used a spiral to square the circle and trisect an angle. There are ...
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Polynomials for the alternating group $A_n$

It is my understanding that the polynomial $f_n(x)=x^n-1$ has the Galois Group $(\mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z})^*$, group of units of order $\phi(n)$. In some sense, these are the "simplest" ...
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Bibliography suggestion for Kummer theory

I already posted a question about a sum involving the degree of a Kummer extension. Now I'm interested in a more specific fact about Kummer extensions. From Hooley's paper "On Artin's conjecture", we ...
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