In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and ...

That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical ...

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 ...

The new proof broadly consists of three steps: derive the macroscopic theory from the mesoscopic one; derive the mesoscopic ...

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

As the annual Student of the Year awards return for another year, the judges in the Scientist and Mathematician category get ready to interview candidates the coming Monday afternoon.

A polynomial is a type of algebraic equation that involves variables raised to a non-negative power — for example, x² + 5x + ...

An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a ...

Mukherjee came to Duke in 2004 and specialized in topological data analysis. He was a dedicated mentor to many and possessed ...

A mathematician from UNSW Sydney has innovatively used new number sequences to solve algebra's oldest problem - higher ...