{"id":213325,"date":"2025-05-06T05:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mathematician-finds-solution-to-one-of-the-oldest-problems-in-algebra"},"modified":"2025-05-06T05:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:12:36","slug":"mathematician-finds-solution-to-one-of-the-oldest-problems-in-algebra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/mathematician-finds-solution-to-one-of-the-oldest-problems-in-algebra","title":{"rendered":"Mathematician Finds Solution to One of The Oldest Problems in Algebra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIHd3zDDDCE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn\u2019t a bad claim to fame, and it\u2019s a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The mathematician has solved what are known as higher-degree <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Polynomial\">polynomial equations<\/a>, which have been puzzling experts for nearly 200 years.<\/p>\n<p>Wildberger, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, worked with computer scientist Dean Rubine on a paper that details how these incredibly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/6-simple-maths-problem-that-no-one-can-solve\">complex calculations<\/a> could be worked out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a dramatic revision of a basic chapter in algebra,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unsw.edu.au\/newsroom\/news\/2025\/05\/mathematician-solves-algebras-oldest-problem-using-intriguing-new-number-sequences\">says<\/a> Wildberger. \u201cOur solution reopens a previously closed book in mathematics history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving one of the oldest algebra problems isn\u2019t a bad claim to fame, and it\u2019s a claim Norman Wildberger can now make: The mathematician has solved what are known as higher-degree polynomial equations, which have been puzzling experts for nearly 200 years. Wildberger, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia, worked with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}