In conclusion, let us outline a different argument, very much in the spirit of Lectures 8 and 5. We considered in these lectures the space of polynomials of a certain type (such as x3 + px + q or x5 − x + a) and saw that the set of polynomials with multiple roots separated the whole space into pieces, corresponding to the number of roots of a polynomial. The set of polynomials with multiple roots is a (very singular) hypersurface obtained by equating the discriminant of a polynomial to zero. Unlike the real case, the set of zeros of a complex equation does not separate complex space
