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Counterexamples to some conjectures on the number of solutions of nonlinear equations

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Dancer, E.N. Counterexamples to some conjectures on the number of solutions of nonlinear equations. Math. Ann. 272, 421–440 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01455568

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