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I have got a question which looks like follow: Show that the equation $\sqrt{ax+\alpha}+\sqrt{bx+\beta}+\sqrt{cx+\gamma}=0$ reduces to a simple equation if $\sqrt{a}\pm\sqrt{b}\pm\sqrt{c}=0$. I am totally confused and don't even know from where should I start. Side note: I don't know what ...
I have removed the tag. (Of course, if this leads to some kind of edit war, I will bring up the issue on meta.
There are some books called theory of equations or theory of algebraic equations. And there is Wikipedia article:
In algebra, the theory of equations is the analysis of the nature and algebraic solutions of algebraic equations (also called polynomial equations), which are equations defined by a polynomial. The term "theory of equations" is mainly used in the context of the history of mathematics.
== History ==
Until the end of 19th century, "theory of equations" was almost synonymous with "algebra". For a long time, the main problem was to find the solutions of a single non-linear equation in a single unknown. The fact that a complex solution always exists is the fundamental theorem of algebra, which...
But looking at those it seems that the most frequent meaning is what algebra-precalculus tag is for.
If we had to discuss every new tag on meta, maybe we would have tag-related post on meta once in about one in each two days...?
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11:08 PM
@MartinSleziak thank you for the pointer. From a quick look I am mostly fine with those. I think I should distinguish between broad and specific tags in my reasoning. I see no problem with mapping some things into directly more general tags, especially not when they are somewhat general to begin with.
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