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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Using Newton-type corrections, a simultaneous improvement of a complete set of approximate factors of arbitrary degree of a polynomial is ...

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Vesselin Dimitrov’s proof of the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture quantifies the way special values of polynomials push each other apart. In the physical world, objects often push each other apart in an ...

Before being mortally wounded in a duel at age 20, Évariste Galois discovered the hidden structure of polynomial equations. By studying the relationships between their solutions — rather than the ...