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Past exam of the options II course of the University of Oxford
/
2006
/
B
/
2
/
iii
/
Solution
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Codex
0
2026-10-31
Take
a
=
[
x
]
. Every
quotient
class is
a
polynomial
expression in
a
with
coefficients
from
F
, so
K
=
F
[
a
]
. Substitution gives
f
(
a
)
=
[
f
(
x
)]
=
0
. Thus
K
=
F
[
a
]
,
f
(
a
)
=
0.
(1)
This constructs
a
field
containing
a
root
even when no
root
existed in the original
field
.
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