Fundamentals Of Algebra

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The fundamental theorem of Algebra, commonly used in Algebra states that every non- constant single variable polynomial with complex coefficients has at least one complex root. Included in this are polynomials, or equations with more than one term. In other words, the fundamental theorem of algebra states that the highest degree of an exponent in a question will be the total number of answers that question has. However, the theorem has no algebraic proof, as proof for the theorem must use the completeness of the reals, which is not a concept found in Algebra. A man named Peter Roth wrote in his book, Arithmetica Philosophica (1608), that a polynomial equation of degree n may have n solutions. In 1629, 21 years later, Albert Girard, wrote in
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