You scrambled up a Rubik's cube , and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: ...

A mathematician has developed an algebraic solution to an equation that was long thought to be unsolvable. A groundbreaking ...

A mathematician and a computer scientist have just solved an "impossible" equation that has been considered unsolvable for ...

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Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The ...

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

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A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations ...