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 ...
We show that the binary expansions of algebraic numbers do not form secure pseudorandom sequences; given sufficiently many initial bits of an algebraic number, its minimal polynomial can be ...
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 11, No. 6 (Dec., 1974), pp. 1087-1104 (18 pages) A composite algorithm has been designed for finding zeros of real polynomials. The algorithm has proved to be ...
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