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 ...

A mathematician has solved a 200-year-old maths problem after figuring out a way to crack higher-degree polynomial equations without using radicals or irrational numbers. The method developed by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Let pn be a polynomial of degree n having all its roots on the real line distributed according to a smooth function u(0, x). One could wonder ...