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

The polynomial problem Solutions to degree-two polynomials have been around since 1800 BC, thanks to the Babylonians' 'method of completing the square', which evolved into the quadratic formula ...

Therefore, he figured, no general formula could solve them ... or functions like sine and cosine. His new method to solve polynomials also avoids radicals and irrational numbers, relying instead ...

If upheld, the ruling would finally wrap up an election that saw Democrat Allison Riggs notch a narrow win in November.

A federal judge ordered the North Carolina Board of Elections on Monday to certify the results of the state’s Supreme Court ...

In a new book, the mathematical epidemiologist Adam Kucharski explains how certainty, even in math, can be an illusion.

The back-and-forth legal saga has gone on for six months over an election that Justice Allison Riggs won by 734 votes.

La Géométrie, a short appendix that appeared in Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method, laid the foundations of analytic ...