There are two cats where I live. Sometimes, I watch them meander around; it’s fascinating to think how they go about their lives totally oblivious to the true nature of the world around them. The above incomputability result (ETA: the insolubility of the quintic) surprised me so much that I have begun to suspect that I too am a clueless cat (until I learn complex analysis; you’ll excuse me for having a few other textbooks to study first).
So I finally got around to learning Galois theory / group theory, and I now understand this insolubility result (although my book stated some field theoretic results without proof). It’s really, really cool, and I’m feeling a lot of things about it right now.
But also… 2018-Trout was just so adorably ignorant! Not only did I make the goof that daozaich pointed out, but that version of me also called the result an “incomputability” result!
You know the feeling you get when you find a drawing you made your mom when you were five, and it’s full of adorable little spelling mistakes? Yeah, that’s what I’m feeling right now.
So I finally got around to learning Galois theory / group theory, and I now understand this insolubility result (although my book stated some field theoretic results without proof). It’s really, really cool, and I’m feeling a lot of things about it right now.
But also… 2018-Trout was just so adorably ignorant! Not only did I make the goof that daozaich pointed out, but that version of me also called the result an “incomputability” result!
You know the feeling you get when you find a drawing you made your mom when you were five, and it’s full of adorable little spelling mistakes? Yeah, that’s what I’m feeling right now.