Quadratic Extensions

Abstract

In this article we further develop field theory [6], [7], [12] in Mizar [1], [2], [3]: we deal with quadratic polynomials and quadratic extensions [5], [4]. First we introduce quadratic polynomials, their discriminants and prove the midnight formula. Then we show that - in case the discriminant of p being non square - adjoining a root of p’s discriminant results in a splitting field of p. Finally we prove that these are the only field extensions of degree 2, e.g. that an extension E of F is quadratic if and only if there is a non square Element a ∈ F such that E and F(√a) are isomorphic over F.