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As a lowbrow polynomial abuser whose career depends on surfacing the number of roots and their ballpark location —this article is inordinately well written. To
by CrazyCatDog 5y ago
As a lowbrow polynomial abuser whose career depends on surfacing the number of roots and their ballpark location —this article is inordinately well written.
To learn about the alchemy that saved my career: Eigenwillig, A. 2007. On multiple roots in descartes rule and their distance to roots of higher derivatives.
- gnatman 5y ago“lowbrow polynomial abuser”, gonna have to remember that one! what sort of work do you do?
- civilized 5y agoI could be totally wrong with this guess, but my fear is that it involves fitting high-order polynomials to some kind of scientific data. In my experience, a lot of applications of polynomials happen because physical scientists have never heard of, or are uncomfortable with, fitting data with anything but polynomials, even though splines are generally far superior for data-driven curve fitting.
- CrazyCatDog 5y agoApplied Micro theory (Econ in a B school) so tortured models and the like!