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• n  a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms
• a  having the character of a polynomial
  a polynomial expression

• In the third year students take up complex numbers, polynomial calculus and more analytic geometry.
• In 1822, Babbage began work on a machine, called the difference engine, that could help solve polynomial equations to six places.

• multinomial

News & Articles

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• Professor awarded $50,000 fellowship
  Jonathan Hauenstein received the 2014 Sloan Research Fellowship for his work and development on algorithms as they relate to mathematics and computer science. He has also recently published a book entitled Numerically Solving Polynomial Systems with Bertini (Software, Environments and Tools).
  March 6, 2014 - Technician

Quotes

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• Adi Shamir in Register
  Shamir, the S in RSA, explained at a talk at the Crypto2008 conference earlier this month that the attack methodology in a generic attack against cypher schemes providing that they can be represented by "low-degree polynomial equations"*.