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For those whom the word “math” conjures up dreadful images from their days in middle-school algebra and high-school calculus, there is Knowre, a Korean start-up founded in 2012 that hopes to save ...

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 ...

The Abhyankar-Sathaye Problem asks whether any biregular embedding $\varphi \colon {\Bbb C}^{k}\hookrightarrow {\Bbb C}^{n}$ can be rectified, that is, whether there exists an automorphism α ∈ Aut Cn ...