That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical ...

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial ...

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – ...

For centuries, one of algebra’s oldest puzzles has remained unsolved—how to find exact answers for higher-degree polynomials, ...

Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The ...

Wildberger said: "The Catalan numbers are understood to be intimately connected with the quadratic equation. Our innovation lies in the idea that if we want to solve higher equations, we should ...

Wildberger says, these don't belong to pure algebra ... intimately connected with the quadratic equation. Our innovation lies in the idea that if we want to solve higher equations, we should ...

Ah, math. Take an easy problem we all studied in our teens, scale it up by just a couple of steps, and suddenly you’re facing ...