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by zmgsabst 1071 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory

The fundamental theorem of algebra is a fact about the diagram which relates polynomials via division by monomials.

Every polynomial of degree n is n divisions of a monomial away from the empty product.

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This is probably easier to see the other direction:

Polynomials of degree n are isomorphic to n-products of monomials, and you can build a graph of the assembly where each arrow represents a multiplication by a particular monomial. (Then reverse the arrows, to get my original diagram.)