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Discriminant of Polynomial in highschool mathematics curriculum  

Choi, Eun-Mi (Department of Mathematics, Hannam University)
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Journal for History of Mathematics / v.24, no.4, 2011 , pp. 143-155 More about this Journal
Abstract
The discriminant is one of the important concepts in school mathematics according to second degree polynomials. In this paper we survey the history of development to discriminant of any higher degree polynomials and investigate how the discriminant works for determining the graph of polynomials.
Keywords
discriminant; sylvester determinant;
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