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SCHOLAR Glossary Adding complex numbers (a + ib) + (c + id) = (a + c) + i(b + d) Add the real parts. Add the imaginary parts. Argument of a complex number The argument of a complex number is the angle between the positive x-axis and the line representing the complex number on an Argand diagram. It is denoted arg (z). Complex number A complex number is a number of the form a + bi where a and b are real numbers and The complex number may also be written as a + ib Conjugate of a complex number The conjugate of the complex number z = a + ib is denoted as and defined by = a - ib The conjugate is sometimes denoted as z Conjugate roots property Suppose P (x) is a polynomial with real coefficients. If z = is a solution of P (x) = then so is z = De Moivre's theorem If z = , then De Moivre's theorem for fractional powers Fundamental theorem of algebra Let P (z) = be a polynomial of degree n (with real or complex coefficients). The fundamental theorem of algebra states that P (z) = has n solutions n in the complex numbers and P (z) = (z - )(z - )...(z -

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The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Library Home Full Table of Contents Suggest a Link Library Help Visit this site: http://www.springer-ny.com/catalog/np/apr97np/DATA/0-387-94657-8.html Author: B. Fine, Fairfield Univ., CT; G. Rosenberger, Univ. of Dortmund, Germany Description: The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra states that any complex polynomial must have a complex root. This basic result, whose first accepted proof was given by Gauss, lies at the intersection of the theory of numbers and the theory of equations, and arises also in many other areas of mathematics. This book examines three pairs of proofs of the theorem from three different areas of mathematics: abstract algebra, complex analysis and topology. Levels: College Languages: English Resource Types: Textbooks Math Topics: Modern Algebra Complex Analysis Algebraic Number Theory Algebraic Topology ... Search http://mathforum.org/ webmaster@mathforum.org

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THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF ALGEBRA Our object is to prove that every nonconstant polynomial f(z) in one variable z over the complex numbers C has a root, i.e. that there is a complex number r in C such that f(r) = 0. Suppose that The key point: one can get the absolute value of a nonconstant COMPLEX polynomial at a point where it does not vanish to decrease by moving along a line segment in a suitably chosen direction. We first review some relevant facts from calculus. Properties of real numbers and continuous functions Fact 1. Every sequence of real numbers has a monotone (nondecreasing or nonincreasing) subsequence. Proof. If the sequence has some term which occurs infinitely many times this is clear. Otherwise, we may choose a subsequence in which all the terms are distinct and work with that. Hence, assume that all terms are distinct. Call an element "good" if it is bigger than all the terms that follow it. If there are infinitely many good terms we are done: they will form a decreasing subsequence. If there are only finitely many pick any term beyond the last of them. It is not good, so pick a term after it that is bigger. That is not good, so pick a term after it that is bigger. Continuing in this way (officially, by mathematical induction) we get a strictly increasing subsequence. QED Fact 2. A bounded monotone sequence of real numbers converges.

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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Gauss' Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Translated by: Ernest Fandreyer, M.S., Ed.D. Professor Emeritus Professor of Mathmatics at Fitchburg State College from 1968 to 1998 Fitchburg State College Department of Mathematics Fitchburg, MA 01420 USA Fundamental Theorem of Algebra - pdf format Note: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed to view this pdf document. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, you can download it free from the Adobe website: Download Acrobat Reader Back to FSC Library

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The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Theorem 1 Every nonconstant polynomial with complex coefficients has a complex root. For example, a nonconstant polynomial of degree 1 has the form f(z) = az+b with a 0, and this has a root z = -b/a. A polynomial of degree 2 has the form f(z) = az +bz+c, and this has roots given by the familiar quadratic formula z = (-b (b -4ac)])/2a. To use this we need to know how to take square roots of complex numbers, which is achieved by the formula x+iy = ((r+x)/2) + ((r-x)/2) i , where r = [ (x +y )]. (Note that the right hand side here only involves square root of positive real numbers.) Alternatively, we can use de Moivre's theorem: we have x+iy = re i q for some q , and then [ (x+iy)] = re i q The case of polynomials of degree 3 is more complicated. A typical cubic polynomial has the form f(z) = az +bz +cz+d. Consider the special case where a, b, c and d are real numbers and a 0, so we can think of f as a real-valued function of a real variable. When x is a large, positive real number the term ax will be much bigger than the other two terms and it follows that f(x) will be positive. Similarly, if x is a large negative real number then the term ax

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Algebraic topology Module type : M Semester 2 Credits 10 Prerequisites: First year mathematics; , Metric spaces; , Rings and groups. Corequisites: None Cannot be taken with: None Description: In this course, we will study metric spaces (which will often be subspaces of R n p X, called the fundamental group, which can be used to help check whether two spaces are homotopy equivalent. We will calculate the fundamental groups of a number of spaces and give some applications, including a proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. Aims To introduce the notion of homotopies between maps, and homotopy equivalences between spaces. To introduce the fundamental group of a based metric space, and compute it for a number of interesting spaces. To study some important applications of the fundamental group. Outline Syllabus Reminder on metric spaces, continuous maps, and compactness. Uniform continuity Projective spaces Open and closed sets Path connetctedness, cutting Homotopy, homotopy equivalence The fundamental group The circle and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra The weak van Kampen theorem Projective space and the rotation group Classification results Higher homotopy and homology The Brouwer Fixed Point Theorem Module Format Lectures Tutorials Practicals Recommended Books (A=core text, B= secondary text, C=background reading)

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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra The fundamental theorem of algebra (FTA) states: Every polynomial of degree n with complex coefficients has n roots in the complex numbers. There are many other equivalent versions of this, for example that every real polynomial can be expressed as the product of real linear and real quadratic factors. Early work with equations only considered positive real roots so the FTA was not relevant. Cardan realized that one could work with numbers outside of the reals while studying a formula for the roots of a cubic equation. While solving x = 15x + 4 using the formula he got an answer involving the square root of -121. He manipulated this to obtain the correct answer, x = 4, even though he did not understand exactly what he was doing with these "complex numbers." In 1572 Bombelli created rules for these "complex numbers." In 1637 Descartes said that one can "imagine" for every equation of degree n n roots, but these imagined roots do not correspond to any real quantity. Albert Girard , a Flemish mathematiciam, was the first to claim that there are always n solutions to a polynomial of degree n in 1629 in . He does not say that the solutions are of the form a + b i , a, b real. Many mathematicians accepted Girard's claim that a polynomial equation must have

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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra The fundamental theorem of algebra (FTA) states Every polynomial of degree n with complex coefficients has n roots in the complex numbers. There are many other equivalent versions of this, for example that every real polynomial can be expressed as the product of real linear and real quadratic factors. Early work with equations only considered positive real roots so the FTA was not relevant. Cardan realized that one could work with numbers outside of the reals while studying a formula for the roots of a cubic equation. While solving x = 15x + 4 using the formula he got an answer involving the square root of -121. He manipulated this to obtain the correct answer, x = 4, even though he did not understand exactly what he was doing with these "complex numbers." In 1572 Bombelli created rules for these "complex numbers." In 1637 Descartes said that one can "imagine" for every equation of degree n n roots, but these imagined roots do not correspond to any real quantity. Albert Girard , a Flemish mathematiciam, was the first to claim that there are always n solutions to a polynomial of degree n in 1629 in . He does not say that the solutions are of the form a + b i , a, b real. Many mathematicians accepted Girard's claim that a polynomial equation must have

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32. Gauss’s 1799 Proof Of The Fundamental Theorem Of Algebra EDITORIAL. Teach Gauss’s 1799 Proof Of the FundamentalTheorem of Algebra. From Spring 2002 21st Century issue. http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Spring02/Gauss_02.html

EDITORIAL From Spring 2002 21st Century issue. An Induced Mental Block A New Curriculum We have all heard the frequent laments among our co-thinkers and professional colleagues at the sadly reduced state of science and mathematics education in our nation. As in all such matters, after the righteous indignation and hand-wringing, is over, one must ask oneself the realistic question: Are you part of the problem, or part of the solution? If you are not sure, we have a proposal for you. To introduce it, I ask you to perform the following experiment. STEP 1: As a suitable subject, locate any person who has attended high school within the last 50 or so years. You may include yourself. Now, politely ask that person, if he or she would please construct for you a square root. Among the technically educated, it is very common, next, to see the diagonal of the square appear, often with the label 2 attached. As this has nothing whatsoever to do with the solution, I have found it most effective to point out in such cases, that the problem is really much simpler than that. No knowledge of the Pythagorean Theorem, nor any higher mathematics, is required. An Induced Mental Block What is the problem? No student of the classical method of education, which has been around for at least the past 2,500 years, could ever have any problem with this simple exercise. The mental block which arises here is the perfectly lawful result of the absurd and prevalent modern-day teaching that number can exist independent of any physically determining principle. This is the ivory-tower view of mathematics, which holds sway from grade school to university, and reaches up like a hand from the grave, even into the peer review process governing what can be reported as the results of experimental physics.

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How to think of a proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra Prerequisites A familiarity with polynomials and with basic real analysis. Statement Every polynomial (with arbitrary complex coefficients) has a root in the complex plane. (Hence, by the factor theorem, the number of roots of a polynomial, up to multiplicity, equals its degree.) Preamble How to come up with a proof. If you have heard of the impossibility of solving the quintic by radicals, or if you have simply tried and failed to solve such equations, then you will understand that it is unlikely that algebra alone will help us to find a solution of an arbitrary polynomial equation. In fact, what does it mean to solve a polynomial equation? When we `solve' quadratics, what we actually do is reduce the problem to solving quadratics of the particularly simple form x =C. In other words, our achievement is relative: if it is possible to find square roots, then it is possible to solve arbitrary quadratic equations. But is it possible to find square roots? Algebra cannot help us here. (What it can do is tell us that the existence of square roots does not lead to a contradiction of the field axioms. We simply "adjoin" square roots to the rational numbers and go ahead and do calculations with them - just as we adjoin i to the reals without worrying about its existence. See my

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3.4 - Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Each branch of mathematics has its own fundamental theorem(s). If you check out fundamental in the dictionary, you will see that it relates to the foundation or the base or is elementary. Fundamental theorems are important foundations for the rest of the material to follow. Here are some of the fundamental theorems or principles that occur in your text. Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (pg 9) Every integer greater than one is either prime or can be expressed as an unique product of prime numbers. Fundamental Theorem of Linear Programming (pg 440) If there is a solution to a linear programming problem, then it will occur at a corner point, or on a line segment between two corner points. Fundamental Counting Principle (pg 574) If there are m ways to do one thing, and n ways to do another, then there are m*n ways of doing both. Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Now, your textbook says at least on zero in the complex number system. That is correct. However, most students forget that reals are also complex numbers, so I will try to spell out real or complex to make things simpler for you. Corollary to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Linear Factorization Theorem f(x)=a n (x-c ) (x-c ) (x-c ) ... (x-c

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Home Search About Fidelio ... Dialogue of Cultures SCHILLER INSTITUTE Carl Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of Algebra H is Declaration of Independence by Bruce Director April, 2002 To List of Pedagogical Articles To Diagrams Page To Part II Lyndon LaRouche on the Importance of This Pedagogy ... Related Articles Carl Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Disquisitiones Arithmeticae Nevertheless, he took the opportunity to produce a virtual declaration of independence from the stifling world of deductive mathematics, in the form of a written thesis submitted to the faculty of the University of Helmstedt, on a new proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra. Within months, he was granted his doctorate without even having to appear for oral examination. Describing his intention to his former classmate, Wolfgang Bolyai, Gauss wrote, "The title [fundamental theorem] indicates quite definitely the purpose of the essay; only about a third of the whole, nevertheless, is used for this purpose; the remainder contains chiefly the history and a critique of works on the same subject by other mathematicians (viz. d'Alembert, Bougainville, Euler, de Foncenex, Lagrange, and the encyclopedists ... which latter, however, will probably not be much pleased), besides many and varied comments on the shallowness which is so dominant in our present-day mathematics." In essence, Gauss was defending, and extending, a principle that goes back to Plato, in which only physical action, not arbitrary assumptions, defines our notion of magnitude. Like Plato, Gauss recognized it were insufficient to simply state his discovery, unless it were combined with a polemical attack on the Aristotelean falsehoods that had become so popular among his contemporaries.

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Home Search About Fidelio ... Dialogue of Cultures SCHILLER INSTITUTE Carl Gauss's Fundamental Theorem of Algebra Part II Bringing the Invisible to the Surface by Bruce Director May, 2002 To Diagram Page Back to Part I When Carl Friedrich Gauss, writing to his former classmate Wolfgang Bolyai in 1798, criticized the state of contemporary mathematics for its "shallowness", he was speaking literally - and, not only about his time, but also of ours. Then, as now, it had become popular for the academics to ignore, and even ridicule, any effort to search for universal physical principles, restricting the province of scientific inquiry to the, seemingly more practical task, of describing only what's on the surface. Ironically, as Gauss demonstrated in his 1799 doctoral dissertation on the fundamental theorem of algebra, what's on the surface, is revealed only if one knows, what's underneath. Gauss' method was an ancient one, made famous in Plato's metaphor of the cave, and given new potency by Johannes Kepler's application of Nicholas of Cusa's method of On Learned Ignorance. For them, the task of the scientist was to bring into view, the underlying physical principles, that could not be viewed directly-the unseen that guided the seen. Take the illustrative case of Pierre de Fermat's discovery of the principle, that refracted light follows the path of least time , instead of the path of least distance followed by reflected light. The principle of least-distance, is a principle that lies on the surface, and can be demonstrated in the visible domain. On the other hand, the principle of least-time, exists "behind", so to speak, the visible, brought into view, only in the mind. On further reflection, it is clear, that the principle of least-time, was there all along, controlling, invisibly, the principle of least-distance. In Plato's terms of reference, the principle of least-time is of a "higher power", than the principle of least-distance.

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Fundamental Theorem of Algebra A constructive proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (every non-trivial polynomial equation P(z)=0 always has a solution in the complex plane) Download (archive compatible with Coq V7.3) Authors: Herman Geuvers Freek Wiedijk Jan Zwanenburg Randy Pollack Henk Barendregt Institution: Nijmegen university Keywords: FTA, Fundamental, Theorem, Algebra, Constructive, Real, Complex, Polynomial This page was automatically generated from this description file

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Next: Calculation of the Fundamental Up: Some First Applications Previous: The Degree of a S The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra We now present one of the most classical theorems in the history of mathematics, which admits several proofs, some of which the reader might already be familiar with. Theorem 6.12 (Fundamental Theorem of Algebra) Every polynomial with complex coefficients has a root. Ran Levi

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