Uncommon
Mathematical
Excursions:
Polynomia and Related Realms
by Dan Kalman
Supplementary Resources
Links to all webpage references
in the bibliography
Appendices
including information about
polynomial division
referred to in Part 1, and
matrix notation and properties
mentioned in Chapter 2.
Exercises
Updated 8/16/09 -- Exercises now available for Chapters 1 - 6.
Lill's Method (Chapter 1)
Animations showing the method in action
Bixby's 1879 Pamphlet
Newton's Method (Chapter 2)
Animations illustrating the ideas of chaos and periodic points
Marden's Theorem (Chapters 2 and 6)
E-Paper with explorations and a proof of the theorem
Envelopes (Chapters 6 and 12)
Flash Applet
Glog (Chapter 11)
Excel spreadsheet with computation of glog
TI 83+ program for glog