Formulae, Algorithms, and Quartic Extrema

DOI10.2307/2691170MaRDI QIDQ4389741zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. J. Jeffrey

Publication date 27 October 1998

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2691170

zbMATH Keywords

cubic equationquartic polynomialturning points

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation of solutions to single equations (65H05)

Review text

Given a cubic equation whose roots give turning points, the author derives an equivalent cubic one which has the advantage that one knows in advance which root to select and where it will be.

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• A variational problem for the roots of a cubic equation. (A contribution to the theory of servo-mechanisms.)

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