Assume that $\mathbb{K}$ is either the field of real numbers or the field of complex numbers and let $W:\mathbb{K}\to\mathbb{K}$ be a polynomial function in one variable over $\mathbb{K}$ with positive degree.

Proposition. Polynomial function $W:\mathbb{K}\to\mathbb{K}$ is a proper map, i.e. for any compact subset $K\subseteq\mathbb{K}$ the preimage $W^{-1}(K)$ is compact.

Proof. Assume that $$W(x)=\sum_{k=0}^{m} a_k\cdot x^k,$$ where $m=\mathrm{deg}(W)\geq 1$ is the degree of $W$ .

Recall that $K\subseteq\mathbb{K}$ is compact if and only if $K$ is closed and bounded. Since polynomial functions are continous, it is sufficient to show that preimage of a bounded set is bounded. So assume that $K$ is bounded and $W^{-1}(K)$ is not bounded. Take a sequence $\{x_{n}\}_{n=1}^{\infty}\subseteq K$ such that $$\lim_{n\to\infty} \Vert x_n \Vert = +\infty,$$ where $\Vert x \Vert$ denotes the Euclidean norm of $x\in\mathbb{K}$ .
Recall that for any $x,y\in\mathbb{K}$ we have $\Vert x+y\Vert\geq \Vert x\Vert - \Vert y\Vert$ . Thus we have: $$\Vert W(x)\Vert=\Vert\sum_{k=0}^{m} a_k\cdot x^k\Vert\geq\Vert a_m\cdot x^m\Vert - \sum_{k=0}^{m-1} \Vert a_k\cdot x^k\Vert=\Vert a_m\Vert\cdot \Vert x\Vert^m - \sum_{k=0}^{m-1} \Vert a_k\Vert\cdot \Vert x\Vert^k.$$ Let $$V(x)=\Vert a_m\Vert\cdot x^m - \sum_{k=0}^{m-1} \Vert a_k\Vert\cdot x^k.$$ Then $V$ is a real polynomial of degree $m$ and the leading coefficient of $V$ is positive, which implies that $$\lim_{x\to +\infty} V(x)=+\infty.$$ Now for each $n\in\mathbb{N}$ we have $$\Vert W(x_n)\Vert \geq V(\Vert x_n\Vert),$$ but $V(\Vert x_n\Vert)$ tends to infinity, therefore $\Vert W(x_n)\Vert$ tends to infinty. Contradiction, since for each $n\in\mathbb{N}$ we have that $W(x_n)\in K$ and $K$ is bounded. $\square$

Corollary 1. Polynomial functions on $\mathbb{K}$ are closed maps.

Proof. Note that $\mathbb{K}$ is compactly generated Hausdorff space and therefore every proper and continous map $f:\mathbb{K}\to\mathbb{K}$ is closed. Thus (due to proposition) polynomial functions are closed. $\square$

Corollary 2. Assume that $W:\mathbb{K}\to\mathbb{K}$ is a polynomial function such that $W(x)\neq 0$ for any $x\in\mathbb{K}$ . Let $f:\mathbb{K}\to\mathbb{K}$ be a map defined by the formula $$f(x)=\frac{1}{W(x)}.$$ Then $f$ is bounded.

Proof. We wish to show that there exists $M>0$ such that for all $x\in\mathbb{K}$ the inequality $\Vert f(x)\Vert \leq M$ holds. Since polynomial functions are closed maps, then the image $\mathrm{Im}(W)$ of $W$ is a closed subset of $\mathbb{K}$ . Therefore $\mathbb{K}\setminus\mathrm{Im}(W)$ is open and it contains $0$ , thus there exists $\epsilon >0$ such that the ball around $0$ with radius $\epsilon$ has empty intersection with $\mathrm{Im}(W)$ . This means that for all $x\in\mathbb{K}$ we have that $\Vert W(x)\Vert\geq\epsilon>0$ . Now for $M=\epsilon^{-1}$ and for any $x\in\mathbb{K}$ we have: $$\Vert f(x)\Vert = \bigg\Vert\frac{1}{W(x)}\bigg\Vert=\frac{1}{\Vert W(x)\Vert}\leq \frac{1}{\epsilon}=M$$ which completes the proof. $\square$