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A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve. A UNSW Sydney mathematician has discovered a new method to tackle algebra's oldest challenge ...

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.

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