Built-in Mathematica Symbol

Roots

rhs, var]
yields a disjunction of equations which represent the roots of a polynomial equation.

Cubics	True	whether to generate explicit solutions for cubics
EquatedTo	Null	expression to which the variable solved for should be equated
Modulus	0	integer modulus
Multiplicity	1	multiplicity in final list of solutions
Quartics	True	whether to generate explicit solutions for quartics
Using	True	subsidiary equations to be solved

Roots is generated when Solve and related functions cannot produce explicit solutions. Options are often given in such cases.

Roots gives several identical equations when roots with multiplicity greater than one occur.

Find roots of univariate polynomial equations:

Equation with exact numeric coefficients:

Equation with symbolic coefficients:

General equations of degree five and higher cannot be solved in radicals:

This equation of degree nine is solved in radicals using factorization and decomposition:

An equation with inexact numeric coefficients:

Multiple roots are repeated the corresponding number of times:

Find roots over the integers modulo 7:

By default Roots uses the general formulas for solving cubic equations in radicals:

With Cubics->False, Roots does not use the general formulas for solving cubics in radicals:

Solving this cubic equation in radicals does not require the general formulas:

Use EquatedTo to specify the left-hand side of the returned equations:

Find roots over the integers modulo 12:

With Multiplicity->n, the multiplicity of each root is multiplied by n:

By default Roots uses the general formulas for solving quartic equations in radicals:

With Quartics->False, Roots does not use the general formulas for solving quartics:

Solving this quartic equation in radicals does not require the general formulas:

Specify equations satisfied by symbolic parameters:

Solutions returned by Roots satisfy the equation:

Use ToRules to convert equations returned by Roots to replacement rules:

Solve uses Roots to find solutions of univariate equations and returns replacement rules:

Roots finds all complex solutions:

Use Reduce to find solutions over specified domains:

Use FindInstance to find one solution:

Use Solve or Reduce to find solutions of systems of multivariate equations:

Use Reduce to find solutions of systems of equations and inequalities:

Use NRoots to find numeric approximations of roots of a univariate equation: