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Finding zeroes of maps: homotopy methods that are constructive with probability one. (English) Zbl 0398.65029

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 65H10 Numerical computation of solutions to systems of equations 54C25 Embedding 34B15 Nonlinear boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations 55M25 Degree, winding number
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