Polynomial Root-finding and Polynomiography
Bahman KalantariContents: Approximation of Square-Roots and Their Visualizations; The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra and a Special Case of Taylor s Theorem; Introduction to the Basic Family and Polynomiography; Equivalent Formulations of the Basic Family; Basic Family as Dynamical System; Fixed Points of the Basic Family; Algebraic Derivation of the Basic Family and Characterizations; The Truncated Basic Family and the Case of Halley Family; Characterizations of Solutions of Homogeneous Linear Recurrence Relations; Generalization of Taylor s Theorem and Newton s Method; The Multipoint Basic Family and Its Order of Convergence; A Computational Study of the Multipoint Basic Family; A General Determinantal Lower Bound; Formulas for Approximation of Pi Based on Root-Finding Algorithms; Bounds on Roots of Polynomials and Analytic Functions; A Geometric Optimization and Its Algebraic Offsprings; Polynomiography: Algorithms for Visualization of Polynomial Equations; Visualization of Homogeneous Linear Recurrence Relations; Applications of Polynomiography in Art, Education, Science and Mathematics; Approximation of Square-Roots Revisited; Further Applications and Extensions of the Basic Family and Polynomiography.