Mathematicians have devised a new way to solve higher-order polynomial equations, ushering in a 'dramatic revision of a basic ...

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

His method was detailed in an article published in The American Mathematical Monthly co-authored with computer scientist Dr.

Mathematicians’ Favorite Shapes Hold the Key to Big Mathematical Mysteries ...

That’s exactly what happened in 1900 at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Sorbonne University in Paris.

University of Chicago Mathematics Graduate Students Julia Bower, Abba Newton, and Frances Baker in 1933. Gift of Julia Bower. (2006.3037.02) During the last third of the nineteenth century American ...

Israeli-American mathematician Dennis Gaitsgory was awarded the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics for his role in the proof of the geometric Langlands conjecture in early April. Gaitsgory has ...

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, physical models were widely used by mathematics educators to depict a wide range of mathematical ideas in three dimensions. Most models were constructed in ...

For centuries, mathematicians accepted this as simply an inherent challenge to their work, but not Norman Wildberger. According to his new approach detailed in The American Mathematical Monthly ...

For centuries, mathematicians accepted this as simply an inherent challenge to their work, but not Norman Wildberger. According to his new approach detailed in The American Mathematical Monthly, there ...