Re: [math-fun] Minsky Harmonic Motion

How does a nonreal number manage to muscle its way into Q(sqrt(3)), a real field?   --  Gene

________________________________ From: Andy Latto <andy.latto@pobox.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 5, 2011 3:22 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Minsky Harmonic Motion

  Q((sqrt(3)) is a field of characteristic 0, but it includes (sqrt(3) + i)/2, and the twelfth power of this is 1.

Andy