Quartic function

- This article is about the univariate quartic. For the bivariate quartic, see Quartic plane curve.
In algebra, a quartic function is a function of the form
where a is nonzero, which is defined by a polynomial of degree four, called quartic polynomial.
Sometimes the term biquadratic is used instead of quartic, but, usually, biquadratic function refers to a quadratic function of a square (or, equivalently, to the function defined by a quartic polynomial without terms of odd degree), having the form