%0 Journal Article %A Melle Hernández, Alejandro %A Artal Bartolo, Enrique %A Luengo Velasco, Ignacio %T Milnor number at infinity, topology and Newton boundary of a polynomial function %D 2000 %@ 0025-5874 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/57092 %X In this paper we show that the Euler characteristic of the generic fibre of a complex polynomial function f : C-n --> C can be easily computed using the Newton number of f. We apply this result to study polynomials with a finite number of critical points. %~