On the Asymptotic Behavior of the Ratio between the Numbers of Binary Primitive and Irreducible Polynomials

This work was presented in part at the 8th International Conference on Finite Fields and Applications Fq^8 , Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July, 2007.

Discriminant Sets of Families of Hyperbolic Polynomials of Degree 4 and 5

∗ Research partially supported by INTAS grant 97-1644