We present a useful formula for the expected number of maxima of a normal process ξ(t) that occur below a levelu. In the derivation we assume chiefly that ξ(t), ξ(t), and ξ(t) have, with probability one, continuous 1 dimensional distributions and expected values of zero. The formula referred to above is then used to find the expected number of maxima below the level u for the random algebraic p...