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Radical Extension

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In mathematics, and more specifically in field theory, a radical extension of a field K is a field extension built as a tower of intermediate field extensions, each one generated by adjoining an nth root of some element already present in the previous field in the tower. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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