A supplementary bibliography

On roots of polynomials

John Michael McNamee

In [1] this author presented a bibliography on roots of polynomials, covering most published works on this topic from the beginnings until approximately mid-1990. See [1] for some very brief remarks on the history and applications of the subject. Now we present a supplementary Bibliography. This contains references to works not included in the original Bibliography, either because they were not yet published, or because they had not yet been discovered by the author.

Formerly the bibliography was presented on a diskette included with the journal issue, together with a C program which facilitated access to the material (e.g. certain categories could be selected). Now, however, the material is being made available via the World-Wide-Web. Instructions for access are as follows:

1. The bibliography can be accessed from the homepage of the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/cam, by activating the hyperlink Bibliography on roots of polynomials
2. The bibliography is divided in 29 categories (from Bracketing methods (real roots only) to N-th roots), each of which can be browsed and perused by activating the appropriate entry in the categories listing.
3. A (simple) search engine is also available. By entering the word you are looking for in the text window and pressing the submit button, you will see all bibliographic references containing your search word. Boolean connectives are not supported. You can limit the scope of the search engine by checking one or more categories before submitting the search engine.