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

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 ...

Over the years, mathematicians found that the twisted shapes exist in dimensions 2, 6, 14, 30 and 62. They also showed that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was elected on Thursday at the Vatican Office as the 267th Pope and will be addressed as Pope ...

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