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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) is the world’s most prominent mathematics competition. The inaugural competition, which took place in Romania in 1959 among seven Soviet Bloc ...

Story continues below this ad But long before Fibonacci popularised the sequences in his book Liber Abaci, the sequences had been known to Indian mathematicians, Yates noted. These were concerned with ...

Mathematicians noticed something unusual had been completed, after this result. With two wins to Liverpool's name, the top seven Premier League title wins make a very familiar pattern. While ...

Ted Kaczynski, a brilliant but mentally troubled mathematician who had retreated years earlier to a remote hovel in Montana, had been arrested based on information from a tipster to the F.B.I ...

But how did Renaissance art lead to the mathematics that govern modern cryptography? The tale spans six centuries and two continents and touches on infinity itself. Its characters include a French ...

Fibonacci sequences are often held up by mathematicians as exemplars of the beauty of mathematics. They can provide vivid visual examples of maths written into the patterns of the real world ...