Monthly Archives: February 2020

Vale instantchess.com

One of the few time wasting activities I still indulge in is speed chess. (1 minute per player for the entire game is the slowest time control I play online.) There are a number of excellent free online sites available, … Continue reading

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Vesselin Dimitrov on Schinzel–Zassenhaus

Suppose that \(P(x) \in \mathbf{Z}[x]\) is a monic polynomial. A well-known argument of Kronecker proves that if every complex root of \(P(x)\) has absolute value at most 1, then \(P(x)\) is cyclotomic. It trivially follows that, for a non-cyclotomic polynomial, … Continue reading

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