Analytic Theory of PolynomialsThis text presents easy to understand proofs of some of the most difficult results about polynomials. It encompasses a self-contained account of the properties of polynomials as analytic functions of a special kind. The zeros of compositions of polynomials are also investigated along with their growth, and some of these considerations lead to the study of analogous questions for trigonometric polynomials and certain transcendental entire functions. The strength of methods are fully explained and demonstrated by means of applications. |
Contents
Introduction 126939885 | 11 |
Fundamental results on critical points | 71 |
More sophisticated methods | 96 |
More specific results on critical points | 117 |
Applications to compositions of polynomials | 141 |
Polynomials with real zeros | 184 |
Conjectures and solutions | 212 |
Inclusion of all zeros | 243 |
Number of zeros in a domain | 357 |
Growth estimates | 403 |
Mean values | 460 |
Derivative estimates on the unit disc | 508 |
Derivative estimates on the unit interval | 566 |
Coefficient estimates | 636 |
References | 681 |
List of notation | 729 |
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