For nearly 200 years, "higher-degree polynomial equations" resisted any general solution. An Australian mathematician ...

While much has been said about his pastoral service and religious views, only a few know that Pope Leo XIV also has a strong foundation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), much ...

The votes are in, and the students nominated for The Providence Journal Student of the Week received high marks. However, ...

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Leo comes from a diverse background. His father, Louis Marius Prevost, was of French and Italian ...

The new pope has repeatedly described himself as an amateur tennis player and has made no secret of his interest in the sport ...

Just a month after his wedding, Colin Day was diagnosed with Stage 4 gastric cancer and died seven months later. In her grief, his newlywed widow Helen Moore decided that she would dedicate her life’s ...

That belief dates back to 1832, when French mathematician Évariste Galois showed that solving polynomials of degree five or higher could not be done using a standard formula involving radicals.

A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge—solving higher polynomial equations. Polynomials are equations involving a variable raised to powers ...

Mathematicians love the certainty of proofs. This is how they verify that their intuition matches observable truth.

Around the time I studied there as an undergraduate, the massive programme of ‘classifying finite simple groups’ had been ...

Now, University of New South Wales mathematician Norman Wildberger and independent computer scientist Dean Rubine have found ...

That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical symmetry in the established methods for lower-order polynomials ...