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Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jack by emailing [email protected] A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South ...
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 ...
Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...
Mathematician Chen Min has left Purdue University’s maths department to join the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo as a full-time faculty member, the latest Chinese academic to return home ...
Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the ...
Mathematician Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel Prize, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced today. Kashiwara is known for building bridges across seemingly distant branches ...
Acclaimed Chinese-American mathematician Huaxin Lin has returned to China for a full-time research position in Shanghai after nearly four decades in the United States. The 69-year-old joined the ...
The lost works of an ancient Greek mathematician, Apollonius, have been discovered by scientists. Apollonius of Perga was known as "The Great Geometer," according to a Liberty University publication.
Russian mathematician and political prisoner Azat Miftakhov has been placed in solitary confinement for seven days. According to a support group for Miftakhov, the decision came after he reported ...
"Some mathematicians have this rare intellect," Tiep said of Brauer. "It's as though they came from another planet or from another world. They are capable of seeing hidden phenomena that others ...
A professor who has devoted his career to resolving the mysteries of higher mathematics has solved two separate, fundamental problems that have perplexed mathematicians for decades. A Rutgers ...
Now, a team of mathematicians say they’ve scaled up the shape into the third dimension and beyond, finding it resolves a math problem that’s been floundering since 1988. The original problem ...