Friday, 27 February 2015

galois theory - Proving that $mathbb{Q}$ adjoin the square root of every prime is an infinite extension

How would one show that $[\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt2, \sqrt3,...,\sqrt{p_n},...)]=\infty$? I know that we want to show there is no finite basis over the rationals, but I'm not sure how one would determine that such a basis does not exist.

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