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I'm not sure I understand your question exactly, but I am fairly certain that not all quintic fields can be solved by the combination of (1) radicals, i.e. taking roots of x^n - 1, and (2) taking roots of x^5 - x - 1. I don't have a proof in mind at the moment, but I speculate it's not too terribly difficult to prove.

If I'm correct, then the proof would almost certainly use Galois theory!



Thanks! I should have made it more explicit that we would need some family of quantic equations, not just x^5 - x - 1. And looks like from another reply the answer is yes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_radical#Solution_of_the_...




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