A polynomial over an integral domain (or equivalently a polynomial equation, which is the generality that one should consider if is only an integral cancellable rig) is solvable if all of its roots in an algebraic closure (or any other sufficiently large splitting field) of are expressible using elements of , the field operations, and extraction of roots.
The basic result of elementary Galois theory is that is solvable over if and only if its Galois group over is a solvable group (whence the name of the latter).
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