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

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

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

These sequences belong to combinatorics ... “The Catalan numbers are understood to be intimately connected with the quadratic equation. Our innovation lies in the idea that if we want to ...

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

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 ...

A UNSW professor claims that a long-standing algebra problem can be solved with a new method that avoids irrational numbers.

Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal and Gavin O'Connor follow 2016's seriously good 'The Accountant' with a sequel that doubles the ...