enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Resolution of singularities - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolution_of_singularities

    An example where it does not is given by the isolated singularity of x 2 + y 3 z + z 3 = 0 at the origin. Blowing it up gives the singularity x 2 + y 2 z + yz 3 = 0. It is not immediately obvious that this new singularity is better, as both singularities have multiplicity 2 and are given by the sum of monomials of degrees 2, 3, and 4.

  3. Quartic equation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic_equation

    In either case the full quartic can then be divided by the factor (x − 1) or (x + 1) respectively yielding a new cubic polynomial, which can be solved to find the quartic's other roots. If a 1 = a 0 k , {\displaystyle \ a_{1}=a_{0}k\ ,} a 2 = 0 {\displaystyle \ a_{2}=0\ } and a 4 = a 3 k , {\displaystyle \ a_{4}=a_{3}k\ ,} then x = − k ...

  4. Fundamental theorem of algebra - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_algebra

    Even without using complex numbers, it is possible to show that a real-valued polynomial p(x): p(0) ≠ 0 of degree n > 2 can always be divided by some quadratic polynomial with real coefficients. [11] In other words, for some real-valued a and b, the coefficients of the linear remainder on dividing p(x) by x 2 − ax − b simultaneously ...

  5. Minimal polynomial (linear algebra) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_polynomial_(linear...

    T 3 ⋅ e 1 = −4T 2 ⋅ e 1 − T ⋅ e 1 + e 1, so that: μ T, e 1 = X 3 + 4X 2 + X − I. This is in fact also the minimal polynomial μ T and the characteristic polynomial χ T : indeed μ T, e 1 divides μ T which divides χ T, and since the first and last are of degree 3 and all are monic, they must all

  6. Descartes' rule of signs - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descartes'_rule_of_signs

    [2] [3] In the 1970s Askold Khovanskii developed the theory of fewnomials that generalises Descartes' rule. [4] The rule of signs can be thought of as stating that the number of real roots of a polynomial is dependent on the polynomial's complexity, and that this complexity is proportional to the number of monomials it has, not its degree.

  7. Polynomial - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial

    For example, antiderivatives of x 2 + 1 have the form ⁠ 1 / 3x 3 + x + c. For polynomials whose coefficients come from more abstract settings (for example, if the coefficients are integers modulo some prime number p , or elements of an arbitrary ring), the formula for the derivative can still be interpreted formally, with the coefficient ...

  8. Bézout's theorem - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bézout's_theorem

    Intuitively, the multiplicity of a common zero of several polynomials is the number of zeros into which the common zero can split when the coefficients are slightly changed. For example, a tangent to a curve is a line that cuts the curve at a point that splits in several points if the line is slightly moved.

  9. Multiplicative inverse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative_inverse

    For the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. For example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth (1/5 or 0.2), and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4. The reciprocal function, the function f(x) that maps x to 1/x, is one of the simplest examples of a function which is its own inverse (an involution).