Symmetric Polynomials in the Work of Newton and Lagrange

DOI10.1080/0025570X.2003.11953211MaRDI QIDQ4830516zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Greg st. George

Publication date 13 December 2004

Published in Mathematics Magazine (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0025570x.2003.11953211

zbMATH Keywords

symmetric polynomialstheory of equationsJ. L. LagrangeI. Newton

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetric functions and generalizations (05E05) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50)

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