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Some may consider this page pointless because of its triviality, but

  1. Wikipedia is for the general public so even trivial points may need explanations
  2. An article on monomial form of a polynmial helps to distinguish between the polynomial and its form, So people have an easier time understanding for example the Lagrange form of the interpolation polynomial.

MathMartin 15:08, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

A polynomial (or a mononial) does not have any "form". In Lagrange polynomial, all occurences of the word "form" refer to the common meaning, almost synonymous to "shape". However, in mathematics, "shape" refers to a geometric concept, and this is why one use often "form" for a specific way of representing an object by a formula, when several possibilities exist. As this is a non-technical use of a common word, and WP:Wikipedia is not a dictionary, the article you are asking for does not belong to Wikipedia.
On the other hand, algebraic forms are a special kind of polynomial functions, and there is an article about them, but this kind of forms is not referred to in the article you citte. D.Lazard (talk) 14:32, 10 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]