Author(s)

Patrick Flinn

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Abstract

Gröbner bases can be used to answer fundamental questions concerning certain sets of polynomials. For example, when are two such sets equal? Given such a set and another polynomial, is this polynomial a member of that set? In this introduction to Gröbner bases, we motivate their salient features by considering the Euclidean algorithm and Gaussian row reduction of matrices from a slightly different point of view.

Disciplines

Mathematics

Comments

Abstract of paper presented at the 6th annual Kenneth C. Schraut Lecture held at the University of Dayton, 2005.


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