Unsolvability of the Quintic Formalized in Dependent Type Theory
1 : Université Côte d'Azur
INRIA
3 : Gallinette Project Team
INRIA
4 : Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
5 : LIX
Ecole Polytechnique
In this talk, we describe an axiom-free Coq formalization that there does not exists a general method for solving by radicals polynomial equations of degree greater than 4. This development includes a proof of Galois' Theorem of the equivalence between solvable extensions and extensions solvable by radicals. The unsolvability of the general quintic follows from applying this theorem to a well chosen polynomial with unsolvable Galois group.