Find the nth roots of unity.

Let me rephrase this question slightly:
 

"Find all the roots of the equation x^n - 1 = 0."

We know by the fundamental theorem of algebra that an nth degree polynomial has exactly n roots. So the excersice has now been reduced to something as simple as: can you find n different numbers  (call them x) such that  x^n = 1.

Well we know 1 works. Let us call it e^oiπ from now on. We still need to find the (n-1) other roots. The key to this is using the fact that 1 = e^oiπ, e^2iπ, e^4iπ, ... So long as our number when raised by n goes to any one of these numbers, we are done. Well, we can see e^2iπ/n does the job, and we can also see e^4iπ/n does the job, so more generally e^2riπ/n does the job for all positive integer r. Now we just need to find n of these numbers that are actually distinct (recall that there are infinitely many different ways of writing a number depending on how you write its argument, so while two numbers may be written differently they will actually be the same).
But fear not! If we look at e^2riπ/n for 0 <= r < n, and r an integer, these are all distinct! (If they were not distinct then we could prove that e^ix = 1 for an x such that 0 < x < 2π, which is false).