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    Contents

    Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
    1 Basic
    properties of polynomials - Part I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
    1.1 Identities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
    1.2 The coefficients of xd in polynomial products . . . . . . 6
    1.3 Factoring and its implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
    1.4 Values of polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
    1.5 Division, GCD of polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
    1.6 The composition of polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
    1.7 Odd and even polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
    2 Basic
    properties of polynomials - Part II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
    2.1 Polynomial roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
    2.2 Integer and rational roots of polynomials . . . . . . . . 44
    2.3 Intermediate value theorem, increasing and
    decreasing polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
    3 Second degree polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
    3.1 The form ax2 + bx + c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
    3.2 The discriminant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
    3.3 Roots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
    3.4 Vieta’s formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
    3.5 Solving inequalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
    3.6 Miscellaneous problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
    3.7 More advanced problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
    4 Third degree polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
    4.1 Roots and graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
    4.2 Vieta’s formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
    4.3 More advanced problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
    5 Fourth degree polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
    5.1 Solving equations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
    5.2 Vieta’s formulas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
    5.3 Number of real roots and graph . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
    5.4 Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
    6 On roots of polynomials - elementary problems . . . . . . . . . 111
    x Contents

    6.1 Vieta’s formulas in the general case . . . . . . . . . . . . 111


    6.2 Inequalities between coefficients and roots . . . . . . . . 115
    6.3 Miscellaneous problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
    7 Number theory and polynomials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
    7.1 Number theory and low degree polynomials . . . . . . . 125
    7.2 P (a) P (b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
    8 Introductory problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
    9 Advanced problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
    10 Solutions to introductory problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
    11 Solutions to advanced problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
    12 Other Books from XYZ Press . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

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