Last month, a paper uploaded to the preprint site ‘arXiv’ drew global attention from the mathematics community. The first page of the paper featured a complex 23rd-degree polynomial with some ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall.

Two mathematicians have used a new geometric approach in order to address a very old problem in algebra. In school, we often learn how to multiply out and factor polynomial equations like (x² – 1) or ...