Ariba Mobin never loved math but was always there to help her son with his school work. When the problems got too hard, she ...

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 ...

University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger has unveiled a potentially game-changing mathematical ...

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

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Others favor more abstract options that represent higher-dimensional ... flexible topological object—is secretly an impossibly hard geometric diamond. This is all metaphor—by “geometric ...

Growing up in Japan in the postwar years, Kashiwara was drawn to maths, he recalls a common Japanese maths problem known as tsurukamezan, which translates as the crane and turtle calculation ...

In Kenya's largest and poorest county, the despair of a beleaguered hospital director is palpable as he explains that the dismantling of American-funded aid means his facility will run out of USAID ...