Specifically, it's the "quintic," one step up from the dread quadratic equation that gives so many kids fits in algebra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Analyze These!] Reference

A colleague and I were reading your Dec. 5 article "Analyze These!" about two math geniuses and were astonished by the statement that the "quintic" is "one step up from the dread quadratic equation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Understanding the Origins of Anorexia] Reference

The progression goes from quadratic to cubic to quartic to quintic functions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Understanding the Origins of Anorexia] Reference

Niels Abel (1802–29) proved that the general quintic cannot be solved by radicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [1820] Reference

A quintic function is a function with five in the exponent, and a quadratic function is a function with two in the exponent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call: Understanding the Origins of Anorexia] Reference

High order end conditions and convergence results for uniformly spaced quintic splines (Technical report/Dept. of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte) by Norman F Innes.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: Americas | Pilot's gun fired during flight] Reference

Oddly enough, I had made identical calculations thirty-four years earlier for the colinear Earth-Moon Lagrange points ( "Stationary Orbits", Journal of the British Astronomical Association, December 1947) but I no longer trust my ability to solve quintic equations, even with the help of HAL, Jr., my trusty H/P 91OOA.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 Odyssey Two]

Parksc onjectured the correct formula for the number of degree d rational curves in a Calabi-Yau quintic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Sums, differences, products and integer powers of polynomials are all polynomials. quintic (fifth degree).    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

For example, from string-theoretic considerations, Candelas, de la Ossa, Green, and Parks conjectured the correct formula for the number of degree d rational curves in a Calabi-Yau quintic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

For example, from string-theoretic considerations, Candelas, de la Ossa, Green, and Parkes conjectured the correct formula for the number of degree d rational curves in a Calabi-Yau quintic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

As a mathematician his name is inseparably associated with the proof of the impossibility of solving algebraically the quintic equation, on which subject he wrote several treatises ( "Teoria generale delle equazioni, in cui si dimostra impossibile la soluzione algebraica delle equazioni generali di grado superiore al 4°", 2 vols.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference

A transcendental solution, however, of the quintic has been given by M. Hermite, in a form involving elliptic integrals. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference

"Abel proved the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation by means of radicals - a problem which had puzzled mathematicians from the time of Bombelli and Viète (a proof of 1799 by the Italian Paolo Ruffini was considered by Poisson and other mathematicians as too vague).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

For the quintic, it's computed up to genus.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reference Frame] Reference

Is the quintic solvable in radicals?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference