Where are proofs of Descartes rule of signs found?

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A few of the (assumed to be good) textbooks on College Algebra discuss the use of Descartes Rule of Signs, and a test for upper and lower bounds for real zeros for polynomial functions; but these ideas are never proved in the books that I found. In which college course, and in which Mathematics textbooks are proofs for these ideas found?
 
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Only rigorous proof i found, it goes for 7 pages.

http://homepage.smc.edu/kennedy_john/POLYTHEOREMS.PDF
 
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