%0 Journal Article %T Infinite Parametric Families of Irreducible Polynomials with a Prescribed Number of Complex Roots %A Catalin Nitica %A Viorel Nitica %J Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics %P 1-6 %@ 2161-7643 %D 2019 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojdm.2019.91001 %X In this note, for any pair of natural numbers (n,k), n≥3, k≥1, and 2k<n, we construct an infinite family of irreducible polynomials of degree n, with integer coefficients, that has exactly n-2k complex non-real roots if n is even and has exactly n-2k-1 complex non-real roots if n is odd. Our work generalizes a technical result of R. Bauer, presented in the classical monograph ¡°Basic Algebra¡± of N. Jacobson. It is used there to construct polynomials with Galois groups, the symmetric group. Bauer¡¯s result covers the case k=1 and n odd prime. %K & %K #205 %K rreducible Polynomial %K Complex Roots %K Real Roots %K Galois Theory %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=89182