A mathematician has developed an algebraic solution to an equation that was long thought to be unsolvable. A groundbreaking ...

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

A mathematician and a computer scientist have just solved an "impossible" equation that has been considered unsolvable for ...

They detailed their approach April 8 in the journal The American Mathematical Monthly. A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example ...

Polynomials above 4 degrees have a shiny new target on their back.

This means that, using Pythagoras’ theorem, the equation of a circle with radius r and centre (0, 0) is given by the formula \(x^2 + y^2 = r^2\). Find the equation of a circle with radius 3 ...