Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 4, No. 8/9, Aug. - Sep., 1897 On the Complex Roots of ...

Over the centuries, mathematicians have developed a variety of methods of solving equations. Using the capabilities of modern computers, they have explored in detail how these age-old recipes ...

Van der Waerden’s conjecture mystified mathematicians for 85 years. Its solution shows how polynomial roots relate to one another. The equation x 2 – 5 = 0 is a bit trickier. The polynomial can’t be ...

where vector is an n ×1 (or 1 ×n) vector containing the coefficients of an (n-1) degree polynomial with the coefficients arranged in order of decreasing powers. The POLYROOT function returns the array ...

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