On Klein's icosahedral solution of the quintic

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2013.09.003zbMATH Open1319.12001arXiv1308.0955OpenAlexW2963702372MaRDI QIDQ403219FDOQ403219

Authors: Oliver Nash 

Publication date: 29 August 2014

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present an exposition of the icosahedral solution of the quintic equation first described in Klein's classic work "Lectures on the icosahedron and the solution of equations of the fifth degree". Although we are heavily influenced by Klein we follow a slightly different approach which enables us to arrive at the solution more directly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0955

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zbMATH Keywords

hypergeometric functioninvariant theoryFelix Kleinicosahedron quintic equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10)

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