You probably know the quadratic formula and possibly know of the cubic and quartic formulas, but there is no general formula for finding the roots of a polynomial of degree 5 or higher, and Galois ...

The higher polynomials grow in degree, the more unwieldy they become. In his 1545 book Ars Magna, the Italian polymath Gerolamo Cardano published formulas for finding the roots of cubic (third-degree) ...

First, we need to find which number when substituted into the equation will give the answer zero. \(f(1) = {(1)^3} + 4{(1)^2} + (1) - 6 = 0\) Therefore \((x - 1)\)is ...

Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn't a bad claim to fame, and it's a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The ...

A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations ... like square and cube roots, mathematicians have turned to ...