TITLE:
A Small Correction to a Paper of Vandermonde
AUTHORS:
Matthew Davis, Shiv K. Gupta
KEYWORDS:
Cyclotomy, Galois, Galois Group, Gauss, Lagrange, Tignol, Vandermonde
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics,
Vol.11 No.2,
April
30,
2021
ABSTRACT: In this paper using elementary Galois Theory, we give a detailed explanation of the calculation of the radical expression for which was first discussed by Vandermonde decades before Galois and we point out and correct a minor correction in his work which was also observed by Lagrange.