enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rational root theorem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_root_theorem

    The rational root theorem is a special case (for a single linear factor) of Gauss's lemma on the factorization of polynomials. The integral root theorem is the special case of the rational root theorem when the leading coefficient is a n = 1.

  3. Descartes' rule of signs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_rule_of_signs

    Theorem — The number of strictly positive roots (counting multiplicity) of is equal to the number of sign changes in the coefficients of , minus a nonnegative even number. If b 0 > 0 {\displaystyle b_{0}>0} , then we can divide the polynomial by x b 0 {\displaystyle x^{b_{0}}} , which would not change its number of strictly positive roots.

  4. List of polynomial topics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_polynomial_topics

    Rational root theorem; Gauss's lemma (polynomial) Irreducible polynomial. Eisenstein's criterion; Primitive polynomial; Fundamental theorem of algebra; Hurwitz polynomial; Polynomial transformation; Tschirnhaus transformation; Galois theory; Discriminant of a polynomial. Resultant; Elimination theory. Gröbner basis; Regular chain; Triangular ...

  5. Galois theory - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galois_theory

    By the rational root theorem, this has no rational zeroes. Neither does it have linear factors modulo 2 or 3. The Galois group of f(x) modulo 2 is cyclic of order 6, because f(x) modulo 2 factors into polynomials of orders 2 and 3, (x 2 + x + 1)(x 3 + x 2 + 1). f(x) modulo 3 has no linear or quadratic factor, and hence is irreducible. Thus its ...

  6. Geometrical properties of polynomial roots - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrical_properties_of...

    The complex conjugate root theorem states that if the coefficients of a polynomial are real, then the non-real roots appear in pairs of the form (a + ib, a – ib). It follows that the roots of a polynomial with real coefficients are mirror-symmetric with respect to the real axis.

  7. Real-root isolation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-root_isolation

    The first complete root-isolation procedure results of Sturm's theorem (1829), which expresses the number of real roots in an interval in terms of the number of sign variations of the values of a sequence of polynomials, called Sturm's sequence, at the ends of the interval.

  8. Resolvent (Galois theory) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolvent_(Galois_theory)

    More exactly, if the Galois group is included in G, then the resolvent has a rational root, and the converse is true if the rational root is a simple root. Resolvents were introduced by Joseph Louis Lagrange and systematically used by Évariste Galois. Nowadays they are still a fundamental tool to compute Galois groups. The simplest examples of ...

  9. Nested radical - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_radical

    In the case of two nested square roots, the following theorem completely solves the problem of denesting. [2]If a and c are rational numbers and c is not the square of a rational number, there are two rational numbers x and y such that + = if and only if is the square of a rational number d.