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Bring Quintic Form

A Tschirnhausen Transformation can be used to take a general Quintic Equation to the form

\begin{displaymath}
x^5-x-a=0,
\end{displaymath}

where $a$ may be Complex.

See also Bring-Jerrard Quintic Form, Quintic Equation


References

Ruppert, W. M. ``On the Bring Normal Form of a Quintic in Characteristic 5.'' Arch. Math. 58, 44-46, 1992.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26