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Jerrard, G.B (1863-?)
    

English mathematician who showed that a general quintic equation Eric Weisstein's World of Math can be reduced to the form x5-x-a = 0 using a Tschirnhausen transformation (Boyer and Merzbach 1991, p. 433).


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References

Boyer, C. B. and Merzbach, U. C. A History of Mathematics, 2nd ed. New York: Wiley, 1991.



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