A new algorithm for factoring multivariate polynomials over the integers based on an algorithm by Wang and Rothschild is described. The new algorithm has improved strategies for dealing with the known ...

I was dumbfounded reading the “Ask the teacher” column [“8th-grade algebra does not add up,” July 16]about requiring eighth-graders to be tested in algebra. I learned algebra in 1963 at McCumber ...

Researchers are building complex mathematical models to understand cancer's evolution and how to treat it. Two Duke researchers are focusing on the deadly mathematics behind the mutated genes and ...

Across 81 countries and education systems, 15-year-olds lost the equivalent of three-quarters of a year of instruction in math and a half year of instruction in reading, though they held ground in ...