The world belongs to the mathematicians and the physicists. We lay people may pump our minds with Discovery Channel specials, but they’re the ones who get to understand how it all really works–how the ...

Algebra provides the formal framework to describe mathematical structures such as groups, rings and fields, while number theory investigates the properties of integers and their extensions. At their ...

You scrambled up a Rubik’s cube, and now you want to put it back in order. What sequence of moves should you make? Surprise: You can answer this question with modern algebra. You might remember ...

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, ...

Want to help your 10th-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your child will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by grade ...