Before being mortally wounded in a duel at age 20, Évariste Galois discovered the hidden structure of polynomial equations. By studying the relationships between their solutions — rather than the ...
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A mathematician has uncovered a way of answering some of algebra's oldest problems. University of New South Wales Honorary Professor Norman Wildberger, has revealed a potentially game-changing ...
https://doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.84.5.369 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/math.mag.84.5.369 Copy URL Summary C. F. Gauss discovered a beautiful formula for ...