Tschirnhaus transformation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of mapping on polynomials that may be defined by means of field theory as the transformation on minimal polynomials implied by a different choice of primitive element.

Word forms

Tschirnhaus transformation Tschirnhaus transformations Tschirnhausen transformation

Etymology

Developed by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus in 1683.

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