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Exercise 9.42
The notation being as in Section 12 show that the minimal polynomial of is .
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Note : we must read “the minimal polynomial of is ”.
Proof. Write .
Then , .
Moreover, since , , therefore .
The Eisenstein’s Irreducibility Criterion (Ex. 6.23) shows that is irreducible over . By section 12, is a root of , so is the minimal polynomial of . □