New research details an intriguing new way to solve "unsolvable" algebra problems that go beyond the fourth degree – something that has generally been deemed impossible using traditional methods for ...

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, such ...

Here's the thing about math that nobody tells you: it's less about memorizing formulas and more about knowing which tools to reach for. By fourteen, students should have a problem-solving toolkit that ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 102, No. 18 (May 3, 2005), pp. 6395-6400 (6 pages) Biological sequences are composed of long strings of alphabetic ...

The technique described in this paper was devised for sequencing jobs on individual machines having characteristics of: (1) high job changeover costs; (2) small backlogs (10-20 jobs); (3) occasional ...