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Using the Lehmer quintic to solve $11$-degree equations and higher?
(This is a natural continuation of a previous post.)
I. Quintic method
Given the Lehmer quintic,
$$x^5 + n^2x^4 - (2n^3 + 6n^2 + 10n + 10)x^3 + (n^4 + 5n^3 + 11n^2 + 15n + 5)x^2 + (n^3 + 4n^2 + 10n + ...
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A method to generate solvable equations of degrees $p = 7, 13, 19, 31, 37,\dots$ using only cubics
I've always wondered if the DeMoivre method to generate an algebraic number $x_p$,
$$x_p = u_1^{1/p}+u_2^{1/p}$$
of degree $p$ using only quadratic roots $u_i$ could be generalized using cubic roots $...