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Prime numbers, diophantine equations, diophantine approximations, analytic or algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, Galois theory, transcendental number theory, continued fractions

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Why do we make such big deal about the 'unsolvability' of the quintic?

For me there's a very simple and important answer, beyond what has been said already about the historical value of the work that was motivated by the problem. And that answer is that the problem is na …
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