In 1900, at the grand amphitheater of the Sorbonne in Paris, David Hilbert stood before a crowd of mathematicians and ...

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A UNSW professor claims that a long-standing algebra problem can be solved with a new method that avoids irrational numbers.

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A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations ...

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