Mathematical English Usage - a Dictionary

by Jerzy Trzeciak

difficult

[see also: hard, complicated, complex, involved, intricate, delicate

When r>3 things become much more difficult.

It becomes impracticable to compute the zeros of F for degrees greater than 6; in any event, deciding whether the divisors found in this way represent irreducible curves becomes increasingly difficult.

This abstract theory is not in any way more difficult than the special case of the real line.



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