Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an easier way to solve quadratic equations. The mathematician hopes this method will help ...

"Even the +, −, =, and x signs we take for granted only came into widespread use in the 17th century. Which means that the earlier algebraists we know of … all had expressed their equations mostly in ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel, wishing it could just do *that one thing* to make your work easier? Maybe you’ve spent hours manually replacing text, trying to filter data with ...