This project centers around finding specific examples of quintic polynomials that were and were not solvable. This helped to devise a method for finding examples of solvable and unsolvable quintics.

A set-theoretical point of view to study algebraic numbers has been introduced. We extend a result of Navarro-Bermudez concerning shift invariant measures in the Cantor space which are topologically equivalent to shift invariant measures which correspond to some algebraic integers. It is known that any transcendental numbers and rational numbers in the unit interval are not binomial. We proved that there are algebraic numbers of degree greater than two so that they are binomial numbers. Algebraic integers of degree 2 are proved not to be binomial numbers. A few compositive relations having to do with algebraic numbers on the unit interval have been studied; for instance, rationally related, integrally related, binomially related, B1-related relations. A formula between binomial numbers and binomial coefficients has been stated. A generalized algebraic equation related to topologically equivalent measures has also been stated.

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Thesis (PhD (Mathematical Sciences))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. / Explicit towers of algebraic function fields over finite fields are studied by considering their ramification behaviour and complete splitting. While the majority of towers in the literature are recursively defined by a single defining equation in variable separated form at each step, we consider towers which may have different defining equations at each step and with arbitrary defining polynomials. The ramification and completely splitting loci are analysed by directed graphs with irreducible polynomials as vertices. Algorithms are exhibited to construct these graphs in the case of n-step and -finite towers. These techniques are applied to find new tamely ramified n-step towers for 1 n 3. Various new tame towers are found, including a family of towers of cubic extensions for which numerical evidence suggests that it is asymptotically optimal over the finite field with p2 elements for each prime p 5. Families of wildly ramified Artin-Schreier towers over small finite fields which are candidates to be asymptotically good are also considered using our method.

The “infrastructure” of quadratic fields is a body of theory developed by Dan Shanks, Richard Mollin and others, in which they relate “reduced ideals” in the rings and sub-rings of integers in quadratic fields with periodicity in continued fraction expansions of quadratic numbers. In this thesis, we develop cubic analogs for several infrastructure theorems. We work in the field K=Q(), where 3=m for some square-free integer m, not congruent to ±1, modulo 9. First, we generalize the definition of a reduced ideal so that it applies to K, or to any number field. Then we show that K has only finitely many reduced ideals, and provide an algorithm for listing them. Next, we define a sequence based on the number alpha that is periodic and corresponds to the finite set of reduced principal ideals in K. Using this rudimentary infrastructure, we are able to establish results about fundamental units and reduced ideals for some classes of pure cubic fields. We also introduce an application to Diophantine approximation, in which we present a 2-dimensional analog of the Lagrange value of a badly approximable number, and calculate some examples.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, August, 1995. / Title from PDF t.p.

Thesis--Bonn. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).

Thesis--Bonn. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 55).