A remark on the proposed syllabus for an AMS short course on computer algebra

It was a pleasure to see that our Special Interest Group initiated contacts with the AMS and that a short course on Computer Algebra has been proposed. The Syllabus [8] for this course seems very representative of our work and I am sure that it will be of great interest to the AMS members. However, as outlined in [8], the Syllabus contains a great historical inaccuracy when referring to "...Descartes' theorem and Uspensky's method;" (in 4: Factorization and Zeros of Polynomials), an inaccuracy which I would like to see corrected.