New York schools chancellor Joel Klein often speaks eloquently about the harm that the education system’s inability to dismiss incompetent teachers does to children. He’s right about that, of course.

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 ...

Bob Moses became famous as one of the chief organizers of the Freedom Summer of 1964, when hundreds of college students invaded Mississippi to fight nonviolently for civil rights. But Moses was also a ...

An equation is a mathematical statement showing that two expressions are equal. The two expressions are linked with an equals symbol (=). The unknown variable (often the letter \(x\)) can take any ...

A mathematician has built an algebraic solution to an equation that was once believed impossible to solve. The equations are fundamental to maths as well as science, where they have broad applications ...