Yeah, I somehow missed looking at the username.
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Better just to search for the subject on reddit.
And this was after the days of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Home
were quite over.
On the other hand, for a say fourth degree equation, it just says that some solution expressible in terms of higher roots exists, but not how to find it. To find the expression, one needs to study the "generic" equation.
This made my day, thanks.
Heck, one of the Millennium Problems (the Hodge conjecture) is in complex geometry (granted, in the more algebraically flavoured part of it).