Ah, math. Take an easy problem we all studied in our teens, scale it up by just a couple of steps, and suddenly you’re facing something that has stumped generations of the world’s best mathematicians.

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 ...

An illustration from the American Mathematical Monthly paper “A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode” Dean Rubine with a T-shirt carrying a mathematics joke about ...