Bourbaki

Proposition 6

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Algebra, chapter VI, § 2. Ordered fields

— Every positive element of a maximal ordered field K has a square root in K. Every polynomial of odd degree in K[X] has at least one root in K.

This follows immediately from Cor. 2 and 1 to Prop. 4 of VI, p. 24.

Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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Transcribed from the printed edition, 2003, Springer. Not translated.