A formula for the roots of a solvable polynomial Let $F$ be a field and $p(x)\in F[x]$ a separable polynomial, denote
$K$ as the splitting field of $p$ and assume that $K/F$ is Galois
with a solvable Galois group.
I don't understand if this imply of any formula (in radicals) for
the roots of $p$ (however, I do understand how a formula would imply
that $p$ is solvable by roots).
Is there some kind of a way to obtain the roots of a solvable polynomial
? 
 A: Lagrange and Vandermonde (and others) knew how to treat various cases before "Galois theory", by "Lagrange resolvents". Some of my algebra notes show how this idea recovers the formula for the solution of cubics: http://www.math.umn.edu/~garrett/m/algebra/notes/23.pdf
By the late 19th century such ideas were well known, and in many cases of solvable Galois groups (though people were not quite able to say things so simply) this device produce solutions in radicals.
Expressing roots of unity in radicals is another example where Lagrange resolvents gives expressions in radicals. This quickly becomes computation-heavy, however. A slightly more sophisticated implementation of "Lagrange resolvents" that does bigger cyclotomic examples before getting bogged down is worked out at http://www.math.umn.edu/~garrett/m/v/kummer_eis.pdf  In that case, some additional ideas of algebraic number theory are used.
Van der Waarden's "Algebra" (based on notes from E. Noether) was the place I saw Lagrange resolvents, and it was a revelation. Indeed, many treatments of "Galois theory" give no inkling of how to do any computations.
