[Tutor] Complex roots

[Dick Moores]

Thanks for the sobering advice, and for the two sites I knew nothing 
about. So there's a SciPy!

Dick

Tim Peters wrote at 20:37 12/12/2004:
> > Are these "numerical approximation methods" pythonically possible?
>
>Of course, but coding general-purpose root finders-- even if "general"
>is limited to just polynomials --requires mathematical and numeric
>expertise.  If it interests you, there are book-length treatments of
>the subject, and there's really no easy reliable approach.  Good
>online sources for numeric algorithms include:
>
>     http://www.netlib.org/
>
>Just Googling on
>
>     polynomial roots Python
>
>will point you to
>
>     http://www.scipy.org/