Exercise 6.1

Show that 2 + 3 is an algebraic integer.

Answers

Proof. Let x = 2 + 3 . Then x 2 = 5 + 2 6 .

( x 2 5 ) 2 = ( 2 6 ) 2 = 24 , so x 4 10 x 2 + 1 = 0 : x is an algebraic integer. □

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