Cincinnati band The Ophelias are in town tonight opening for Ezra Furman. We give you "3 Reasons" to get there early to see ...

A mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University has developed an easier way to solve quadratic equations. Here's the secret.

Learn and revise how to solve quadratic equations by factorising, completing the square and using the quadratic formula with GCSE Bitesize AQA Maths.

Solutions to the simplest polynomial equations — called “roots of unity” — have an elegant structure that mathematicians still use to study some of math’s greatest open questions.

Renaissance mathematicians manipulated what they came to call irrational numbers while trying to solve algebraic equations. The modern notation for square roots came into use in the 16th and 17th ...

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A polynomial equation such as z4 – 1 = 0 has as many roots as the highest power to which z is raised in the equation (the equation’s degree). In this instance, there are four complex roots.

There’s nothing unusual about the lessons being presented in Janet Floyd’s high school algebra class: quadratic equations, square roots, and fractions. What’s less familiar is the amount of ...

The April 27 proposal outlined a simple equation that uses a square root function that proportionally lowers the percentage of fees as the funding capital allocated to a particular project grows.