For centuries, one of algebra’s oldest puzzles has remained unsolved—how to find exact answers for higher-degree polynomials, where the variable is raised to the fifth power or more. Mathematicians ...
Think 20th century abstract art and the mind automatically conjures up images of Jackson Pollock's expressionist drip paintings or Mark Rothko's cool intensity. But the North wasn't the only America ...
Latin America provided many prolific and creative post-war heirs to Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich, who had pioneered geometric abstraction in Europe in the early 20th century. The radicalness in ...