4.I.2F

Groups, Rings and Modules | Part IB, 2004

State Gauss's lemma and Eisenstein's irreducibility criterion. Prove that the following polynomials are irreducible in Q[x]\mathbb{Q}[x] :

(i) x5+5x+5x^{5}+5 x+5;

(ii) x34x+1x^{3}-4 x+1;

(iii) xp1+xp2++x+1x^{p-1}+x^{p-2}+\ldots+x+1, where pp is any prime number.

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