That year, French mathematician Évariste Galois finally illustrated why this was such a problem—the underlying mathematical ...

A mathematician and a computer scientist have just solved an "impossible" equation that has been considered unsolvable for ...

The most famous result attributed to Pythagoras is ... and it continues to fascinate mathematicians and math enthusiasts to this day. One apocryphal story of the Pythagoreans illustrates the ...

The world-famous mathematician Alan Turing found a possible mechanism for iconic animal patterns thanks to differential equations ...

How many alien societies exist, and are detectable? This famous formula gives us an idea. The Drake Equation, which was the agenda for a meeting of experts held in West Virginia in 1961, estimates N, ...

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger introduced his famous equation, now known as Schrödinger’s Equation. This groundbreaking ...

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