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Twitter proof: the roots go hand in hand


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In this twitter proof we will have a look at a rather curious, yet simple, property of real polynomials.

Claim: if p(x)=∑ni=0aixi is a polynomial with real coefficients, then for all complex numbers z, p(z)=0⟺p(ˉz)=0 which means that the complex roots of p(x) come in conjugate pairs.

Twitter proof: it suffices to show that p(z)=0⟹p(ˉz)=0. Assume that p(z)=0 and recall that ai=¯ai: p(ˉz)=n∑i=0aiˉzi=n∑i=0¯aizi=¯n∑i=0aizi=¯p(z)=0

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