Dr. Math on factoring - mistake?

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and would like to ask if this section is correct:

If it can, then you would have

$f(x,y) = g(x,y) * h(x,y)$,

where g and h are polynomials of degree at least one (that is, not constants). It turns out that there will necessarily be at least one complex solution $(x,y)$ to the simultaneous equations

$g(x,y) = 0$ $h(x,y) = 0$

This is known from Bezout's Theorem.

Is this true? It seems like $g(x,y) = x^2 + y^2$ and $h(x,y) = x^2 + y^2 + 1$ is an obvious counterexample.

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Your example is correct and the proof from your link is not.

The polynomial $2xy + 3x^2 + y$ given there is irreducible just because it is irreducible as a polynomial in $y$ with coefficients in the ring $\mathbb C[x]$.

Sometimes one can use algebraic geometry tools to determine whether a homogeneous polynomial $f$ (in at least three variables) is irreducible: if its zero set is smooth ($f$ and its partial derivatives have no common zeros other than $(0,0,...,0)$), then it is irreducible.