Hilbert’s 12th problem asked for novel analogues of the roots of unity, the building blocks for certain number systems. Now, over 100 years later, two mathematicians have produced them. Problems in ...

In this video I am going to work through the differences of finding the zeros between a quadratic, cubic and quartic binomial ...

In this math tutorial, we clarify the differences between Descartes' Rule of Signs and the Rational Root Theorem. We provide ...

Vesselin Dimitrov’s proof of the Schinzel-Zassenhaus conjecture quantifies the way special values of polynomials push each other apart. In the physical world, objects often push each other apart in an ...