Winding Number and the Number of Real Zeroes of a Function
Authors
Lieven Smits
and W. Kuyk (in real life, Willem Kuijk - here are a few
of his many works)
Bibliographical Reference
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society,
volume 114, number 4 (April 1992), pages 981-987.
Abstract
The theorem in this paper shows that the number of real simple
zeros of a function of the form
f(x) = q(x)
+ ax + b, x
Î
R, for
not too wild q(x) can be obtained counting the winding number of
a closed plane curve about the point (a, b).
AMS Subject Classifications (1985)
26C10, 12D10.
Availability
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lieven@sterunwanted.be
Reference
- Kuyk, Willem and Smits, Lieven,
On the Geometries of the Rational Unfoldings of
±Xk, Acta Applic. Math. 19
(1990), 77-86.
History of this page
- Sep-Oct 2002: move to new site and update contact information
- 25 May 1998: add list of references
- 7 May 1998: include other information about the paper
- 1 Apr 1998: creation of the abstract