Timeline for How to show $(x - a)$ is a factor of a polynomial $p(x)$ if and only if $p(a) = 0$ (without division)
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| May 9, 2018 at 14:52 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Dave Indeed, simplifications by way of shifts (automorphisms) are helpful not only in algebra, but also in analysis, e.g. for proving inequalities (as in those explicit $\epsilon$-$\delta$ proofs of limits). | |
| May 9, 2018 at 9:18 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | Reminds me of this, which I recently cited here. | |
| May 8, 2018 at 20:17 | history | edited | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 328 characters in body |
| May 8, 2018 at 19:57 | history | answered | Bill Dubuque | CC BY-SA 4.0 |