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Tadashi
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In the recent paper

Anton, R.; Mihalache, N.; Vigneron, F., A Short ODE Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra., Math. Intelligencer (2023).

the authors give a proof based on the analysis of the attractive points of the initial value problem:

$$\varphi_z(0)=z, \quad \varphi_z^{\prime}(t)=-\frac{P\left(\varphi_z(t)\right)}{P^{\prime}\left(\varphi_z(t)\right)},$$

which is a continuous-time version of Newton's method for computing the zeros of the polynomial $P$.

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