Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

A UNSW professor claims that a long-standing algebra problem can be solved with a new method that avoids irrational numbers.

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

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 ...

Researchers at the University of Hong Kong used special models to simulate the phase transition from one quantum state to ...

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

New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – ...

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

Isabel Rabey reviews Einstein’s Tutor: the Story of Emmy Noether and the Invention of Modern Physics by Lee Philips ...

Mathematicians have recentlysolved a problem that has eluded scientists for over 125 years, bridging three key theories that ...

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