Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 44, Issue 2

Diophantine Polynomials

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 44 Issue 2, June 2007

34 – 42

Diophantine Polynomials

Duncan E McDougall

What is a Diophantine Polynomial? It is a polynomial of degree 2, 3 or 4 which is factorable in the set of integers and whose derivative is factorable in the set of rational numbers. We want to discuss them to facilitate curve sketching.