Relative equilibria of identical point vortices may be associated with a generating polynomial that has the vortex positions as its roots. A formula is derived that relates the first and second ...
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The mathematicians were trying to extend an illustrious result in their field, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. The astrophysicists were working on a fundamental problem in their field, the problem ...