Abstract.A recent paper by J. B. Diaz and Dorothy Browne Shaffer extends the Gauss-Lucas Theorem to n-dimensional Euclidean space. The authors leave open certain natural questions concerning the existence of "zeros of the derivative". This paper answers three such questions, and suggests several other questions for further investigation.
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