It’s the sort of easy maths problem that you can work out in a few minutes using pencil and paper, but physicists in China, Canada and Singapore have now solved pairs of linear equations like this one ...

This jingle has helped generations of algebra students recall the quadratic formula that solves every equation of the form $latex ax^2+bx+c=0$. The formula is as ...

The ancient Babylonians were a remarkable bunch. Among many extraordinary achievements, they found a now-famous mathematical solution to an unpleasant challenge: paying tax. The particular problem for ...

THESE works are very different in scope, but may be noticed together as examples of the way in which mathematics is studied in the United, States. Prof. Dicksons treatise on the theory of equations is ...

Balls of human brain cells grown in a dish, known as organoids, have been linked to computers and used to solve mathematical equations. The work is an early step towards using living brain tissue as a ...

In grade school, you were probably constantly drilled on mathematics. Whether it be multiplication tables, simple addition, or complicated division, it was taught over and over again that quick math ...

Masaki Kashiwara has won the 2025 Abel prize, sometimes called the Nobel prize of mathematics, for his work on algebraic analysis. Kashiwara, a professor at Kyoto University, Japan, received the award ...

Differential equations are fundamental tools in physics: they are used to describe phenomena ranging from fluid dynamics to general relativity. But when these equations become stiff (i.e. they involve ...

The math you thought you would never use again from school is back to haunt you. X users are in an uproar over an equation that @BholanathDutta posted. It appears as a simple equation, but the comment ...