Graduate course issued by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and hosted by MIT OpenCourseWare. Course instructor: Pablo A. Parrilo; this teaching role does not establish authorship of every lecture note. Spring 2006 is the course term, not an online publication date.
Lecture note in Algebraic Techniques and Semidefinite Optimization, MIT 6.972, Spring 2006. The printed heading is Lecture 6; Resultants and Discriminants is a descriptive subject title. The heading credits Pablo A. Parrilo as lecturer and leaves the scribe unidentified. No individual authorship or editing credit is inferred. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issues the course material; MIT OpenCourseWare hosts this copy.
Cited passages: printed pp. 6–1 to 6–2, §1 Resultants, Sylvester matrix and equation (1); printed p. 6–2, §2 Discriminants, Definition 2; printed p. 6–3, §3.1 Polynomial equations, elimination and backsubstitution. The printed date is the lecture date; no separate online publication or revision date is established.