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Factorization of polynomials

The history of polynomial factorization starts with Hermann Schubert who in 1793 described the first polynomial factorization algorithm, and Leopold Kronecker, who rediscovered Schubert's algorithm in 1882 and extended it to multivariate polynomials and coefficients in an algebraic extension.



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