On Gauss's first proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.124.8.688MaRDI QIDQ4575416zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Soham Basu, Daniel J. Velleman

Publication date 13 July 2018

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.06585

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Polynomials in real and complex fields: location of zeros (algebraic theorems) (12D10) History of functions of a complex variable (30-03) Zeros of polynomials, rational functions, and other analytic functions of one complex variable (e.g., zeros of functions with bounded Dirichlet integral) (30C15)

Abstract: Carl Friedrich Gauss is often given credit for providing the first correct proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra in his 1799 doctoral dissertation. However, Gauss's proof contained a significant gap. In this paper, we give an elementary way of filling the gap in Gauss's proof.

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