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Exercise 12.1.4
Verify (12.9) and (12.10).
Answers
Proof. Starting from
we add the quantity
so
Since
we obtain
The discriminant of the right member is
So the second member is a perfect square if and only if the Ferrari resolvent
is zero for the chosen . □
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