[HN Gopher] The Beauty of Roots (2023)
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       The Beauty of Roots (2023)
        
       Author : ykonstant
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2024-03-05 12:31 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | JadeNB wrote:
       | In case you recognize the Baez address and are wondering, it's
       | unsurprisingly not this kind of root
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root , but, somewhat surprisingly
       | to me, also not this kind of root
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_system . Instead it's this
       | kind of root https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_of_a_polynomial ,
       | which is really what I should have expected before thinking of
       | root systems ....
        
       | evanb wrote:
       | I have a little python package for making images of Littlewood
       | polynomials (and others).
       | 
       | https://github.com/evanberkowitz/littlewood
        
       | cscheid wrote:
       | Such a cool structure.
       | 
       | I was so amazed when I learned about it out ~10 years ago that I
       | wrote a little interactive thing in javascript + webgl for it. I
       | hope you'll forgive my self-indulging here:
       | https://cscheid.github.io/lux/demos/beauty_of_roots/beauty_o...
        
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