APPENDIX B
There is, in fact, a lot more yet that can be said about the roots of f (z) 5 0, and Professor Pierpont says it all in his paper, but this is as far as I’ll go with the discussion. You will have to read his paper for the rest of it. But don’t you think it absolutely astonishing how much information on the nature of the roots Professor Pierpont cleverly teased out of his equation, without ever coming anywhere near to actually calculating anything?
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