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| ``Re: Obtuse Definition''
by azdbacks4234 on 2009-02-08 21:33:29 |
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| Alright, just one more thing. If you feel like an entry needs something, file a correction to it. This way your concerns are brought to the attention of the entry's owner. The link to do this is at the bottom of the entry page. Note that I am neither endorsing nor dismissing your assertion that anything needs to be changed with this entry, I'm just trying to point you in the right direction as a new user of the site. I would caution you, however, to take a look at some other entries on the site, at various levels of mathematical sophistication, to get an idea about how mathematical writing looks. I reiterate that the definition in this entry is basic for senior undergraduate and beginning graduate math students. To make it fully comprehensible for a reader with no mathematical background would be absurd, requiring at least explanations of all of the following terms:
group
Galois group
field
field extension
algebraic element
algebraic field extension
minimal polynomial
group conjugacy
Trust me when I tell you these terms cover a wide range of mathematical material, far more than could be fit reasonably into a single entry. Math is very much cumulative.
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